Mining Incidents

ZOAR STONE & GRAVEL: 33 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

ZOAR STONE & GRAVEL PROCESSING DIVISION · Surface
Charlemont, Franklin County, MA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1901263

ZOAR STONE & GRAVEL has $5K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
33
citations
13
significant & substantial
$5,287
proposed penalties
$5,287
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
15
inspections on record
153
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: 153 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

ZOAR STONE & GRAVEL has $5K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
33 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-09-10.
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.
39.4%
significant & substantial
6.1%
high negligence or reckless
39.4%
reasonably likely or greater
36.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 24.2% low, 69.7% moderate, 6.1% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Zoar Stone & Gravel Processing Division 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
2021 1
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

ZOAR STONE & GRAVEL sits in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 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.
Franklin County, Massachusetts · Population 70,922
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$72,584
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
2026 Q2 240 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 65 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 177 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 384 3 0 7812.5
2025 Q2 144 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 180 1 0 5555.6
2024 Q3 264 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 288 8 2 27777.8
Show 17 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 376 5 4 13297.9
2023 Q2 85 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 165 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 96 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 156 4 4 25641.0
2020 Q2 150 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 120 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 140 3 0 21428.6
2019 Q3 170 5 3 29411.8
2019 Q2 245 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 415 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 608 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 246 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 833 4 0 4801.9
2017 Q2 546 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.