Mining Incidents

YORK: 8 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Heidelberg Materials AG
York, York County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3600044

YORK has $512 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
4
Years on record
1983–1998
Latest incident
Apr 1998
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
8
citations
2
significant & substantial
$512
proposed penalties
$512
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
10
inspections on record
167
inspection hours
n/a
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: 167 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

YORK has $512 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.
$512
proposed penalties
$512
current assessed
$512
paid to date
$0
outstanding
8 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-03-05.
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.
25.0%
significant & substantial
12.5%
high negligence or reckless
25.0%
reasonably likely or greater
25.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 25.0% low, 62.5% moderate, 12.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2002-07-17, 24 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
5
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (5)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2002-07-17 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 10 0.01 Truck Driver
2002-07-17 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.73 10 0.07 Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-07-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.67 3.23 0.21 Washer Operator
2002-07-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.39 2.6 0.15 Truck Driver
2002-07-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.48 3.07 0.16 Truck Driver
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.

YORK recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2002.

Injury rate, 2002
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 4.17 and the all-US-mining average was 5.05 cases per 100 workers.
In Pennsylvania, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.49 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.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2002 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2000 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
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.
Ownership history
  1. General Crushed Stone Company 1950 to 1988
  2. Hanson Aggregates Pennsylvania Inc 1988 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2003 9
2002 14
2001 9
2000 11
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

YORK sits in York County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
York County, Pennsylvania · Population 459,312
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$82,238
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 Q2 7,135 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,480 5 1 3378.4
2002 Q4 4,440 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 7,395 1 1 135.2
2002 Q2 7,868 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 5,340 1 0 187.3
2001 Q4 1,415 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 7,528 1 0 132.8
Show 6 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2001 Q2 6,883 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 1,578 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 2,948 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 7,472 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 8,226 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 2,804 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

1998 · 1 incident

April 27, 1998 PA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hanson Aggregates Pennsylvania Inc · Fall from machine

EE WAS HELPING MECHANIC WITH REPAIRS. FENDER-STEP COMBINATION WAS PARTIALLY FRASTENED, WHEN EE STEPPED ONTO FENDER TO DISMOUNT LOADER, FENDER-STEP COMBINATION FELL CAUSING EE TO FALL.

1994 · 1 incident

1983 · 2 incidents

October 12, 1983 PA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
General Crushed Stone Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EUCLID TRUCK WAS BEING LOADED IN AREA WHERE THEY WERE TAKING MATERIAL OUT TO MAKE A NEW RAMP DROP BALL WAS 150\ FROM TRUCK BEING LOADED. THERE EWAS A DIRT AND ROCK BIRM BETWEEN DROP BALL AND T RUCK SOMEHOW A ROCK WENT OVER BIRM AREA WENT INTO DRIVERS SIDE OF WINDOW HITTING LEFT SIDE OF FACE IN EYE AREA

August 9, 1983 PA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
General Crushed Stone Company · Struck by falling object

EE WAS REMOVING BUCKET PINS FROM A 275 MICHIGAN FRONT END LOADER. WHEN PIN WAS REMOVED BUCKET ARM DROPPED ON MIDDLE INDEX FINGEWR RIGHT HAND.