Mining Incidents

POLAND PLANT Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Heidelberg Materials AG
Poland, Herkimer County, NY  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3001186

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2007
Latest incident
Dec 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
31
citations
1
significant & substantial
$3,562
proposed penalties
$3,419
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 2,003 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,164 6 0 1896.3
2025 Q1 1,050 1 0 952.4
2024 Q4 2,405 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,256 1 0 796.2
2024 Q1 1,036 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 604 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,043 1 0 489.5
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2007 · 1 incident

December 10, 2007 NY · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Heidelberg Materials Northeast-NY LLC · Struck by flying object

EE was blowing off and cleaning 4" ball valve. Piece of metal blew in eye. Did not go for medical treatment till 12/13/07, because he believed it was sand in eye and he had washed it out on night of 12/10/07.