MINE DETAILS
WATAUGA QUARRY
MSHA MINE ID4000124
LOCATION
Mine location
1 of 1 mine with usable MSHA coordinates. Select a marker to open a mine.
Mine coordinates
- WATAUGA QUARRY36.36389, -82.28806Open map ↗
Quarterly trends
2025 Q1 – 2026 Q4
Database snapshot · 2026-10-13. MSHA quarterly production and employment reports.
Coal production
0reported short tons
Hours worked
56,419reported employee hours
Tons per hour
0.00production ÷ hours worked
Missing values appear as —. Totals use available reports. Tons per hour requires production and hours for the same quarters and a nonzero hours total. * Striped bars mark partial mine coverage or an incomplete quarter. See the table for coverage.
Quarterly data and reporting coverage
| Quarter | Coal (short tons) | Hours worked | Tons / hour | Avg. employees | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q1 | 0 | 11,479 | 0.00 | 17 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q2 | 0 | 10,949 | 0.00 | 16 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q3 | 0 | 7,900 | 0.00 | 17 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q4 | 0 | 7,711 | 0.00 | 17 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q1 | 0 | 8,429 | 0.00 | 17 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q2 | 0 | 9,951 | 0.00 | 18 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q3 | — | — | — | — | No report |
| 2026 Q4 | — | — | — | — | No report |
Safety and enforcement
2025-01-01 – 2026-10-13
Violations
50 significant & substantial (S&S)
Accident records
30 records classified as fatality
Proposed penalties · USD
453.003 of 5 violations with amounts
On-site inspection hours
101.756 inspections · 6 with hours
Counts are published records, including contractor records. * The quarter was incomplete at the snapshot date; recent counts may rise as reports arrive. — means no reported amount or hours. Portfolio totals use current membership.
Quarterly safety data
| Quarter | Violations | S&S | Proposed USD | Accident records | Fatality records | Inspections | On-site hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025-Q2 | 2 | 0 | 302.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 25.8 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23.0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18.5 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2026-Q3 | 3 | 0 | 151.00 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 34.5 |
| 2026-Q4 * | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Most cited CFR sections
All violations issued in the selected period. Counts combine subsections.
Safety activity
HANDLING OF MATERIALS · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
Accident narrative
Injured employee and another employee were lifting a spare electrical contactor when EE felt a pain/pop in EE's left arm. Injury occurred on 9/11/26 but the injury did not become reportable until 9/24/26 when the employee received medical treatment.
56.14110
Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 34.5 on-site hours
56.4501
Compliance Follow-up Inspection · 0.0 on-site hours
POWERED HAULAGE · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
Accident narrative
Truck driver was using weight cart to move weights to calibrate their truck scale, the cart flipped and the truck driver hit ground and broke EE's right arm at EE's wrist.
Compliance Follow-up Inspection · 0.0 on-site hours
50.20-7(b) · $151.00 proposed
Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 18.5 on-site hours
Spot Inspection · 23.0 on-site hours
56.14132(a) · $151.00 proposed
56.11001 · $151.00 proposed
Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 25.8 on-site hours
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON · DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
Accident narrative
Employee stepped on the bottom end of a frozen berm behind the shop causing EE to fall injuring EE's right leg.
Safety sources and definitions
MSHA Violations (issue date), Accidents (accident date), and Inspections (begin date). Snapshot 2026-10-13.
Counts describe published rows, including contractor records; accident records are not distinct incidents or numbers of people injured.
Zero means no matching records in the imported sources, not proof of no events. Historical coverage differs by source; absence before a source begins reporting is not a zero incident rate. Invalid or absent dates and records after the snapshot are excluded.
S&S means SIG_SUB=Y. Fatality records use DEGREE_INJURY_CD=01. Proposed penalties are not final assessed or paid amounts; missing dollar values are omitted.
Inspection hours are SUM_TOTAL_ON_SITE_HOURS attributed to the inspection start date, without supervisor/trainee hours. Missing hours are omitted; a started inspection may still be open.
Portfolio totals use current mine membership, including events before the current owner or operator's tenure.
CFR headings link to the current Title 30 index; they are not historical legal determinations.
OWNERSHIP
Operator and controller history
Current ownership comes from MSHA Mines. Historical start and end dates come from MSHA Controller and Operator History.
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Martin Marietta Materials InccontrolsMartin Marietta Southeast Agg Operations, LLCoperatesWATAUGA QUARRY
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4000124—
Martin Marietta Materials InccontrolsBlue Water IndustriesoperatesWATAUGA QUARRY
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4000124—
Blue Water Industries Holdings LLCcontrolsBlue Water IndustriesoperatesWATAUGA QUARRY
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4000124—
Aggregates USA Holdings LLCcontrolsAggregates USA LLCoperatesWATAUGA QUARRY
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4000124—
Ready Mix USA InccontrolsAggregates USA LLCoperatesWATAUGA QUARRY
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4000124—
Cemex S AcontrolsRinker Materials South Central, Inc.operatesWATAUGA QUARRY
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4000124—
Rinker Group LtdcontrolsRinker Materials South Central, Inc.operatesWATAUGA QUARRY
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4000124—
CSR LtdcontrolsRinker Materials South Central, Inc.operatesWATAUGA QUARRY
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4000124—
Grupo Mexico S A B de C VcontrolsAmerican Limestone Company IncoperatesWATAUGA QUARRY
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4000124—
Asarco InccontrolsAmerican Limestone Company IncoperatesWATAUGA QUARRY
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 4000124Other historical summaries · source-specific periods
RECORD SUMMARY
Production, safety and enforcement
These summaries use the periods stated on each card, independently of the reporting period above.
01 / SAFETYwatch
Accidents and injuries
12 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 200 lost days across the published record.
ACCIDENT + INJURY RECORD4 since 2021
accidentsmine-production-quarterly02 / COMPLIANCEwatch
Violations and penalties
65 violation rows across the full record; 7 carry an S&S flag and $6,693 appears in current assessed amounts.
ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY9 since 2021
inspectionsviolationsassessed-violationsorders-107a03 / HEALTHcontext
Occupational health samples
51 personal. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 noise rows have an action-level or PEL dose above 100%. These are separate measures, not a silica exceedance count. Silica results and sample status are shown separately.
OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE51 samples
personal-health-samples04 / PRODUCTIONcontext
Quarterly production and employment
10K employee hours and 18 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
2026-Q20 tons
mine-production-quarterlymine-production-yearly05 / LEGALwatch
Contests, conferences and decisions
0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 conference records linked by issuance number.
POST-ISSUANCE LIFECYCLE2 linked rows
conferencescontested-violationscivil-penalty-dockets-decisions06 / CONTRACTORScontext
Contractors
Contractors are linked through this mine’s violation or accident records. Their production and hours cover all their operations, so they are not included in this mine’s totals.
ENTITY-LEVEL CONTEXT4 linked entities
contractor-production-quarterlycontractor-production-yearlyaccidentsviolations07 / INSPECTIONScontext
Inspections
82 inspection events and 2K published inspection hours across the historical record.
OVERSIGHT COVERAGE15 since 2021
inspectionsviolationsHEALTH SAMPLING
Silica and quartz
Coal quartz, metal/nonmetal personal samples and area samples. Snapshot Oct 13, 2026. 16 silica records across the mine’s published history.
Personal silica samples · concentration / limit
Quarterly mean · published C/E ratio
— No eligible measurements. * Quarter in progress. Means describe the available samples, not average exposure across the mine.
Quartz % is the sample’s quartz content; µg/m³ is its reported concentration. Personal C/E is the ratio to the limit published with that sample. Personal and area concentration units and void status are not specified in those source files.
| Date / sample | Dataset / analyte | Occupation / area | Measurement | Sample status | Published action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No silica records match these filters. Missing samples do not establish safe conditions. | |||||
Sources and interpretation
- Coal means use numeric concentrations from samples marked not voided, excluding control/invalid sample types and dates after the snapshot. Missing values remain null; reported zeroes remain zero.
- Quarterly means describe available samples, not mine-wide or worker-average exposure. Quarters with no eligible measurements remain empty; the current quarter is partial.
- Personal C/E is MSHA's published concentration-to-limit ratio. A value above 1 is not by itself a citation or a determination under the 2024 silica rule. Personal and area files do not publish a void-status field.
- Area records include bulk-dust analyses and are kept separate from personal exposure results. Their concentration units are not specified in the source dictionary.
- Missing samples do not establish safe conditions. Coal quartz percentage and concentration are separate measures. No compliance threshold is inferred for coal samples.
Coal quartz field definitions ↗Metal/nonmetal personal field definitions ↗Metal/nonmetal area field definitions ↗
EIA + TITLE 30
EIA production and cited regulations
EIA annual figures are reported separately from MSHA. Regulation links use the current eCFR snapshot.
Not present in the 2024 EIA coal workbook.
This can mean the operation is non-coal, inactive for the annual period, or outside the EIA-7A reporting population.
30 CFR 56.14110Flying or falling materials.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 56.4501Fuel lines.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 50.20-7Criteria—MSHA Form 7000-1, Section D.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 56.14132Horns and backup alarms.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 56.11001Safe access.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 56.12004Electrical conductors.3 recent rows ↗30 CFR 56.12065Short circuit and lightning protection.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 56.12032Inspection and cover plates.1 recent row ↗
RECENT PUBLIC RECORDS
Recent violations and samples
Latest records retained for inspection; aggregates above use the full source history.
927275556.14110Citation
927275456.4501Citation
927274650.20-7(b)Citation
988071156.14132(a)Citation
988071056.11001Citation
831374256.12004Citation
987247056.12004Citation
987244556.12004Citation
Coal dust, noise and other contaminants. Silica records above ↑
Respirable dust, <.1mgFront-end Loader Operator
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
Respirable dust, <.1mgFront-end Loader Operator
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
Respirable dust, <.1mgCrusher Oper/Worker
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
Respirable dust, <.1mgUtility Man
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
Respirable dust, <.1mgFront-end Loader Operator
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
Respirable dust, <.1mgFront-end Loader Operator
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
Respirable dust, <.1mgFront-end Loader Operator
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
Respirable dust, <.1mgCrusher Oper/Worker
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
SOURCE COVERAGE
Reporting dates and coverage
13 datasets contain linked records. Missing datasets are listed below.
DATASETROWSWINDOWSTATUS
Accident, Injuries, and Illnessessafety · contractors12Aug 16, 2000—Sep 11, 2026mine-keyed
Addresses of Recordidentity · logistics1May 4, 2012—May 4, 2012mine-keyed
Assessed Violationscompliance · legal61Jan 25, 2000—Aug 6, 2026mine-keyed
Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisionscompliance · legal—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Coal Dust Sampleshealth · safety—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Conferencescompliance · legal2Jan 16, 2002—Jun 3, 2002mine-keyed
Contested Violationscompliance · legal—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterlycontractors · production · safety634Not published—Not publishedentity-linked
Contractor Employment and Production — Yearlycontractors · production · safety166Not published—Not publishedentity-linked
Controller and Operator Historyidentity · compliance10Jan 1, 1950—Dec 12, 2024mine-keyed
Mine Employment and Production — Quarterlyproduction · safety · compliance318Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Mine Employment and Production — Yearlyproduction · safety · compliance81Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Inspectionssafety · compliance82Jan 25, 2000—Aug 25, 2026mine-keyed
Minesidentity · production · logistics1Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Metal and Nonmetal Area Sampleshealth · safety—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Metal and Nonmetal Personal Health Sampleshealth · safety51Mar 18, 2004—Sep 1, 2026mine-keyed
Noise Sampleshealth · safety · equipment—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Quartz Samples — Coalhealth · safety—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Violationscompliance · safety · legal65Jan 25, 2000—Aug 31, 2026mine-keyed
107(a) Orders Issuedsafety · compliance—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
NOTES
Limitations
- Contractor production is entity-level and is never represented as mine-attributable.
- Missing rows can mean no event, publication delay, identity mismatch, or inapplicability.