Yellow Rock Quarry has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
1983–1991
Latest incident
Jul 1991
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
22
citations
5
significant & substantial
$1,813
proposed penalties
$1,813
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘThis rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 337 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Yellow Rock Quarry has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
ⓘDifferences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
22 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2002-06-06.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘShares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘA sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.
Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘMany samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2003-08-28, 22 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2003-08-28
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.14
10
0.01
Front-end Loader Operator
2001-08-01
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.43
10
0.04
Front-end Loader Operator
2001-08-01
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2001-05-30
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.28
1.58
0.18
Crusher Oper/Worker
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Yellow Rock Quarry recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2000.
Injury rate, 2000
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.77 and the all-US-mining average was 5.64 cases per 100 workers.
In Kentucky, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.56 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2003
4
2002
9
2001
10
2000
13
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Yellow Rock Quarry sits in Lee County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 1.0% of county employment.
Local economic context
ⓘCounty figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Lee County, Kentucky · Population 7,375
1.0%
Mining share of county employment
$34,182
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
ⓘCitations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2003 Q4
1,435
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
1,253
0
0
0.0
2003 Q2
1,569
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
1,450
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
1,650
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
7,461
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
3,524
3
1
851.3
2002 Q1
1,578
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2001 Q4
3,771
6
2
1591.1
2001 Q3
6,373
2
1
313.8
2001 Q2
6,432
2
0
310.9
2001 Q1
1,618
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
3,895
7
1
1797.2
2000 Q3
7,631
2
0
262.1
2000 Q2
4,367
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
6,215
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
6 on file
1991 · 1 incident
July 26, 1991KY · Metal/Non-Metalblaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkeyHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE WAS MOVING AIR HOSE SO POWDER RIG COULD BE MOVED INTO POSITION FOR LOADING HEADINGS THE HOSE CAME LOOSE AT THE RESERVE AIR TANK ON POWDER RIG STRIKING EE AND CAUSEING LACERATIONS TO RIGHT E YEBOW.
EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING EUCLID WATER TRUCK UNDERGROUND. HE PULLED INTO PATH OF 35 TON MACK HAULER. HAULER HIT LEFT SIDE OF WATER TRUCK, BENDING DOOR INTO EMPLOYEE'S LEFT ARM.
1986 · 1 incident
March 5, 1986KY · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, bull gang, faceman, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scalerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EMPLOYEE WAS LI0TING BUCKET TILT LINK ON H-90E LOADER SO THE PIN COULD BE REPLACED TO HOLD IT INOT POSITION THE TILT LINK SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HANDS AND FELL CATCHING HIS LEFT HAND AGAINST THE B UCKET CAUSING L5CERATIONS TO LEFT INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGERS
1985 · 1 incident
February 25, 1985KY · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorPOWERED HAULAGE
EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING CONVEYOR BELT TO SEE IF IT WAS FREE. AS THE EMPLOYEE WAS TURNING SHEAVE ON HEAD PULLEY DRIVE THE CONVEYOR BELT ROLLED BACK, PINNING HIS LEFT HAND BETWEEN SHEAVE AND GEAR REDUCER, CAUSING A LACERATION OF THE INDEX FINGER.
1983 · 2 incidents
May 4, 1983KY · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING SHOP MECHANIC WHO WAS WORKING ON POWER STEERING OF PAYHAULER EMPLOYEE TURNED THE STEERING WHEEL TO THE LEFT AND WAS HOLDING IT THE SHOP MECHANIC RELEASED THE PRESSURE ON THE STEERING CAUSING THE WHEEL TO SPIN TO THE RIGHT THE STEERING WHEEL JERKED THE DOCTOR UNTIL 082783 AND HAS SURGERY ON 091483
February 4, 1983KY · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorSTEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMTPING TO GAIN ACCESS TO PLATFORM OF STEDMAN MILL WHICH HE WAS OPERATING THE PLATFORM IS APPROX 1 1/2 FT FROM THE GROUND USING HIS RIGHT FOOT FIRST HE STEPPED ONTO PLATFORM WH ERE HIS FOOT HIT SOME FINE STONE CAUSING HIM TO SLIP HIS LEFT LEG HIT THE METAL FRAME OF MILL APPROX 5IN ABOVE HIS ANKLE CAUSING A HAIRPIN FRACTURE TO HIS LEFT LEG
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