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ASTON QUARRY Metal/Non-Metal

Virginia Mist Granite Corp Inc · Surface

Controlled by Fabrizio Ponzanelli

Rapidan, Culpeper County, VA · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 4406900

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 4
Years on record: 2002–2007
Latest incident: Jul 2007

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

citations

significant & substantial

$29,659

proposed penalties

$27,459

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
2008 Q4	180	0	0	0.0
2008 Q3	4,468	0	0	0.0
2008 Q2	156	12	4	76923.1
2008 Q1	115	0	0	0.0
2007 Q4	4,275	8	2	1871.3
2006 Q3	5,730	0	0	0.0
2006 Q2	6,446	4	0	620.5
2006 Q1	488	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

4 on file

2007 · 1 incident

July 26, 2007 VA · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer POWERED HAULAGE

Virginia Mist Granite Corp Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Hooking chain on turntable of saw, operator told loader operator to lower the boom on loader. The chain pinched end of finger with chain. Replaced short chain with long chain.

2004 · 1 incident

May 19, 2004 VA · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man POWERED HAULAGE

Virginia Mist Granite Corp Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

988F LOADER WAS BEING USED TO PULL LEDGE DOWN. WHILE PULLING EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING ROCKS IN CRACK. CRACK CLOSED QUICKLY PINCHING RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER RESULTING IN LACERATION.

2002 · 2 incidents

June 26, 2002 VA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY

Virginia Mist Granite Corp Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

SAW PUMP NOT PUMPING, SUCTION HOSE WAS VIBRATING. SAW WATER SPITING OUT AT CAP TOP END. TURNED OFF MOTOR THEN STARTED TO MOVE PUMP OUT OF THE WAY. CAP POPPED OFF, WATER AND MUD EVERYWHERE. I T URNED AWAY FROM PUMP AND RUSHED TO OTHER WATER, TOOK SHIRT OFF AND WASHED IT OFF MYSELF.

February 11, 2002 VA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Virginia Mist Granite Corp Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EQUIPMENT CORE DRILL PERSONS WORKING ON DRILL. WHILE DISCONNECTING DRILL RODS WAS STRUCK BY A CRESENT WRENCH THAT WAS LEFT SITTING IN A BAD POSITION ON MACHINE. EE PULLED DOWN PN WRENCH TO UNSCREW NEW ROD. WRENCH HE PULLED DOWN ON HITTHE CRESENT WRENCH THAT WAS SITTING ON MACHINE CAUSING WRENCH TO FLY UP AND STRIKE EE ON THE RT. SIDE OF HEAD, IN EYE AREA.