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The dimension-stone quarry the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists here lies 0.35 miles from the Census centre of the place — close enough that the quarry and the borough are effectively the same address.

It is a small operation: 5 people on the record, working at surface, carried under MSHA identifier 3609642. The operator of record is Bennett Stone, which is not the name the quarry itself is carried under — a common enough split between who works a pit and what the pit is called, and worth knowing if you are chasing a title or a bill of sale.

Beyond the ownership, there is a rule that catches out-of-town hauliers here. The Mine Safety and Health Administration carries this as a surface stone operation, so it falls under the federal training part that covers sand, gravel, surface stone and surface clay, and that part requires site-specific hazard awareness training for over-the-road delivery drivers before they work at each site.

Each site, not once. A driver running three quarries in Bradford County needs it three times, and it is the sort of thing that turns a first delivery into a longer day than the mileage suggested.

The rock is sandstone, which carries the quartz-bearing silica profile rather than the carbonate one, and the federal exposure limit for respirable crystalline silica is 50 micrograms per cubic metre with an action level of half that.

Those neighbours are the same trade and they are close. A dimension-stone quarry works 5.6 miles off at Middletown, a slate quarry 6.7 miles away at Wyalusing, a sandstone pit 9.2 miles out at Montrose, another dimension-stone operation 11.3 miles off at Laceyville with 2 people, and the Elk Lake workings 13.8 miles away.

Further out a tungsten plant sits 15.7 miles off at Towanda — the odd one in this district, and nothing like the stone trade around it — and a sandstone operation 16.3 miles away at Meshoppen carries 60 people, far the largest payroll in this group.

One caution outweighs all of those numbers. American bluestone comes from about 150 mostly small quarries, and the Pennsylvania Bluestone Association alone has 105 members. The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists ten quarries in the district. Ten are a sample, not a census, and absence from that list says nothing whatever about whether a place has quarries.

What is visible is the wear: between Wyalusing 6.7 miles off and Meshoppen 16.3 miles away the decks come back marked by forklift tines and pallet corners, and that is expected rather than held against a truck.

• The deck is chewed up from pallets.Standard on a stone flatbed and we expect it. Around Middletown and Montrose every deck looks like that.
• It is a small operation, only a few trucks.That is the whole district. The Elk Lake and Bennett Stone kind of payroll is the norm, not the exception.

Operations of five people retire trucks one at a time, usually when the person driving that one stops. There is rarely a fleet manager and rarely a plan.

Beyond that it is the ordinary run of it, from Wyalusing 6.7 miles off to Towanda 15.7 miles away — a contract that ended, an estate, or a truck nobody has needed since the last job.