78% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $69,881 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
1,685
inspections on record
26,266
inspection hours
4.4
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.
1,166 citations across 26,266 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
ⓘDifferences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$319K
proposed penalties
$266K
current assessed
$249K
paid to date
$16K
outstanding
1,141 assessments are final orders; 106 contested dockets.
Of $229K in penalties contested before the Commission, $104K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-14.
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.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ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.
1.99
total case rate
1.24
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2026
1.05
0.00
0.000
2025
1.99
1.24
0.000
2024
1.04
0.52
0.000
2023
1.85
1.32
0.265
2022
0.57
0.29
0.000
2021
1.23
0.00
0.000
2020
0.97
0.00
0.000
2019
1.44
0.58
0.000
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.
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: 2026-03-23
1%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
609
samples
192
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz862 over
Respirable dust, <.1mg378
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz62
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz35
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.
When citations were contested
ⓘContesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
169citations taken to the federal commission · 14% of citations on record
Settled
156 · 92%
Stood as issued
11 · 7%
Still open
2 · 1%
56%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘCounts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 105 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
42%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$125K proposed, $73K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2024-10-30. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this operator contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
March 15, 2023FL · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerFatality · MACHINERY
Florida Rock Industries Inc · Drowning
An employee was operating a CAT 390F excavator in the South Quarry Pit. The machine went into the water and sank to a depth of approximately 25 feet. Consistent with 103K order modifications approved by MSHA, the operator was recovered the following day.
July 19, 2004GA · Metal/Non-Metaldriller, highwall helper, highwall drill helperFatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Florida Rock Industries Inc · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EMPLOYEE WORKING NEAR EDGE OF HIGHWALL FELL 90 FEET AFTER SLIPPING OR STEPPING IN WRONG DIRECTION.
April 25, 2001GA · Metal/Non-Metalwelder (shop)Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Florida Rock Industries Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EE WAS IN BIN AS MATERIAL WAS BEING DISCHARGED.
December 8, 1999FL · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerFatality · MACHINERY
Florida Rock Industries Inc · Drowning
EMPLOYEE WAS LEVELING PAD FOR DRAGLINE TO EXCAVATE LIMEROCK USING A CAT TRACK DOZER NEXT TO A WATER FILLED PIT THE MACHINE BACKED OVE THE EDGE AND FELL INTO 25 FT OF WATER. EMPLOYEE DIED.
July 10, 1989MD · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanFatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Florida Rock Industries Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
I NAME WAS TRAPPED IN CHEVROLET C-10 PICK-UP TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING AS THE RESULT OF BEING BACKED OVER BY A CATERPILLAR 775 HAUL TRUCK HE PULLED DIRECTLY BEHIND THE TRUCK BEYOND SIGHT OF WHERE H E COULD BE SEEN FROM THE CAB OF THE CAT TRUCK WHEN THE CAT OF THE CAT TRUCK PROCEEDED BACKWARDS IT CRUSHED THE FRONT OF THE TRUCK TRAPPING THE DRIVER
December 19, 1985FL · Metal/Non-Metalbackhoe operator, trackhoe operatorFatality · MACHINERY
Florida Rock Industries Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
FATALITY OCCURR9D WHILE EMPL TRYING TO STRING OUT WELDING LEAD ALONG WALKWAY OVER PAIR OF TROMMELS.A LIFTING EYE CAUGHT LEAD AND PULLED EMPL AROUND TROMMEL AND INTO CATCH BASIN BELOW.WATER THE N WASHED EMPL I3TO DRAINAGE DITCH.
For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants
Where Florida Rock Industries Inc stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate
MSHA's standard limits respirable silica to 50 micrograms per cubic metre, but MSHA publishes
dust and quartz as separate files and never the silica figure itself. We derive it per sample,
score it against the limit, and set the operator's injury rate against a benchmark built from
the full MSHA operator record. With the 26-year penalty trail, contest posture, and fatality
history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.