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Tower Pit, Venango County, Pennsylvania: 3 MSHA citations
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Tower Pit is an intermittent crushed, broken sandstone surface mine in Venango County, Pennsylvania, operated by Joe Klapec & Son Inc. with 2 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 3610048). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 3 citations and orders there with $441 in proposed penalties, and 0 accident reports were filed there, with no injury or illness cases.
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- MSHA mine ID
- 3610048
- Status
- Intermittent since December 17, 2024
- Main commodity
- Crushed, broken sandstone
- Mine type
- Surface
- County
- Venango County, Pennsylvania
- Nearest town
- Oil City
- Operator
- Joe Klapec & Son Inc.
- Employees
- 2
- MSHA field office
- Warrendale PA Field Office
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 3
- Significant and substantial
- 0 (0.0%)
- Closure orders
- 0
- High negligence or reckless
- 0
- Proposed penalties
- $441
- Amount paid so far
- $441
- Inspections
- 6
- Inspector hours on site
- 29
- Citations per inspection
- 0.50 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 0
- Injury and illness cases
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Latest MSHA record
- September 15, 2026
Citations and injury cases by year
Calendar years since 2022; 2026 runs to the date of the MSHA files.
| Year | Citations and orders | Significant and substantial | Proposed penalties | Injury and illness cases |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | $441 | 0 |
Standards cited most at Tower Pit
Sections of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations named on the citations, with the part each belongs to.
| Standard | What the part covers | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 30 CFR 56.14132 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 2 |
| 30 CFR 56.4201 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
Other open mines in Venango County, Pennsylvania
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scrubgrass Fuel Handling Facility | Scrubgrass Reclamation Company, L.P. | Venango County, PA | Coal (bituminous) | 5 | 75 |
| Cooperstown Sand & Gravel | Schiffer Excavating Inc | Venango County, PA | Construction sand and gravel | 5 | 22 |
| Barkeyville Quarry #14 | Glenn O Hawbaker Inc | Venango County, PA | Crushed, broken limestone | 4 | 11 |
| Cranberry Township Gravel Pit | Cranberry Township | Venango County, PA | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 2 |
US government work, public domain. Counts come from the MSHA files published on November 6, 2026. An open mine is one MSHA lists as Active, Intermittent, New Mine, Temporarily Idled or NonProducing; 13,673 were open that day. Citations, penalties, inspections and accident reports run from January 1, 2022. A citation is an inspector's allegation and an operator can contest it; the penalty is the amount MSHA first proposed, before any contest or settlement. An operator is the legal entity MSHA assesses, and a parent company is its controller. Mines run by sole proprietors or by individuals are counted in every total and are not named. This page uses MSHA data and is not endorsed or certified by MSHA. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.