Mining Incidents

Blue Ridge Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

CalMat Co. · Surface
Controlled by Vulcan Materials Company
Hopland, Mendocino County, CA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0405355

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2015–2020
Latest incident
Jun 2020
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
83
citations
24
significant & substantial
$17,755
proposed penalties
$17,508
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q1 104 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 506 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 717 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 717 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 958 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 132 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 881 1 0 1135.1
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2020 · 1 incident

June 29, 2020 CA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Syar Industries, Inc · Struck against stationary object

Loading rock into crusher. Loader hit buried rock causing loader to stop suddenly. Operator had seat belt on but face went forward striking back up camera view screen

2016 · 1 incident

February 22, 2016 CA · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec POWERED HAULAGE
Syar Industries, Inc · Struck against stationary object

Customer was driving the empty truck down the quarry road when it toppled over and rolled 200 feet down and driver was thrown from truck as EE did not have a seatbelt on. Accident pending California Highway Patrol (CHP) report. Not our employee, was a customer.

2015 · 1 incident

February 17, 2015 CA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Syar Industries, Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was removing a bolt on a 330CL Excavator to change out attachments and when the bolt broke loose his left thumb was smashed between the wrench and the boom. His left thumb began to swell after a while. A co-worker and the employee talked and decided to be safe to have his left thumb looked at.