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Quality Aggregates Inc: 344 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Joseph Aloe
MSHA operator ID: L13530

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
65
Mines on record
3
Years on record
1990–2012
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
344
citations
104
significant & substantial
$177,827
proposed penalties
$132,102
paid to date
74% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $45,725 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
118
inspections on record
2,440
inspection hours
14.1
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.
344 citations across 2,440 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.
$178K
proposed penalties
$138K
current assessed
$132K
paid to date
$6K
outstanding
336 assessments are final orders; 26 contested dockets.
Of $120K in penalties contested before the Commission, $80K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2013-06-06.
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.
31.0%
significant & substantial
15.5%
high negligence or reckless
31.8%
reasonably likely or greater
58.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 20.2% low, 64.3% moderate, 15.2% high, 0.3% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2013
ⓘ 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
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.46 and the all-US-mining average was 2.99 cases per 100 workers.
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
2013 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2012 1.01 1.01 0.000
2011 2.81 2.81 0.000
2010 2.41 0.00 0.000
2009 6.93 5.78 0.000
2008 3.28 3.28 0.000
2007 3.80 2.85 0.000
2006 5.11 2.04 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.
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: 2013-01-10, 13 years ago
11%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
46
samples
37
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz213 over
  • Copper fumes21 over
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz9
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg8
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.
51 citations taken to the federal commission · 15% of citations on record
  • Settled 48 · 94%
  • Stood as issued 3 · 6%
94%
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 31 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
34%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$107K proposed, $71K 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 2012-11-30. 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.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
PENN 2012-413M Settlement Steele 2013 $17K → $17K
PENN 2009-408M Settlement Lewis 2011 $13K → $10K
PENN 2012-285M Settlement Steele 2013 $12K → $9K
PENN 2010-326M Settlement Harner 2011 $10K → $7K
PENN 2013-89M Settlement Lesnick 2013 $9K → $4K
PENN20020036M Settlement Feldman 2002 $9K → $6K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2012
1
2011
3
2010
3
2009
6
2008
3
2007
6
2006
6
2005
1
2004
2
2002
2
2001
4
2000
3
1999
2
1998
6
1997
2
1996
3
1994
1
1993
6
1992
2
1991
2
1990
1

Mines on record

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Where Quality Aggregates 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.

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