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Valley Stone Metal/Non-Metal

Mountain Materials Inc · Surface

Controlled by CRH PLC

Olive Hill, Carter County, KY · Active

MSHA Mine ID: 1500001

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 5
Years on record: 2013–2024
Latest incident: Aug 2024

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

126

citations

significant & substantial

$75,522

proposed penalties

$71,265

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 Q4	7,615	0	0	0.0
2025 Q3	6,946	1	0	144.0
2025 Q2	2,983	0	0	0.0
2025 Q1	7,849	1	0	127.4
2024 Q4	5,598	0	0	0.0
2024 Q3	668	0	0	0.0
2024 Q2	4,237	1	1	236.0
2023 Q4	1,214	0	0	0.0

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2024 · 1 incident

August 12, 2024 KY · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Mountain Materials Inc · Struck by falling object

employee was installing universal joint on 773 B Cat haul truck, Universal joint slipped out of spline off driveline. Striking employee on right side of head. Employee went to Grayson Urgent treatment center, Four staples were attached to close wound, employee returned to work with no restrictions.

2023 · 1 incident

August 29, 2023 KY · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Mountain Materials Inc · Struck by falling object

Miner was manually removing bucket from skid steer and as the bucket released it fell striking miner in right shin. Miner was transported to medical facility and received 8 stitches.

2022 · 1 incident

June 2, 2022 KY · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Mountain Materials Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee stated employee had experienced shoulder pain while working on screen deck.

2020 · 1 incident

January 21, 2020 KY · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Mountain Materials Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

The date of the incident was 12/2/2019 and was reported by employee on 12/3/2019. EE said right shoulder was hurting, but wasn't sure they did it on the job. An accident report was filled out. After a visit to family Dr. and MRI, an orthopedic Dr. said the injury might be a new injury. EE reported this result to company on 01/21/2020 at 1:56 pm.

2013 · 1 incident

April 16, 2013 KY · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Mountain Materials Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee was helping turn blow bars in Impact Crusher, he was standing inside Impact waiting on co-worker to lower bars to him with boom truck when he felt his right calf muscle pull in his leg. He said it didn't bother him at the time and called me around 6:30 pm at home and said it was getting sore. He went to doctor that night and got pain meds. He never missed any work.