Skippers Quarry
We call it Doing The Right Thing, The Right Way, At The Right Time — this is The Vulcan Way. Since 1920, Skippers Quarry has been an important economic engine for Greensville County. We make the construction aggregates that help grow and sustain communities while forming the building blocks for the region’s roads, bridges, homes, hospitals, schools, office buildings and places of worship. As a top 20 major manufacturing employer in the area, we help support the County’s economic and employment base.
Our Commitment to You
We are committed to investing in Greensville County by creating and supporting jobs and economic opportunity while operating safely, reliably and in an environmentally responsible manner. Our people are motivated to be the best they can be to the benefit of the communities we serve. Visit WorkForVulcan.com to search and apply for job openings across our entire company.
We Support the Local Economy
We believe in local. Nineteen employees and retirees--most of our Skippers Quarry Vulcan family members--live in the Greensville-Emporia area. We provide vital economic and community benefits to the area including providing annual wages and benefits of nearly $3 million, purchasing $1 million+ in goods and services from Greensville County-based businesses and organizations and supplying 60 key local customers, including contractors, local governments and builders.
Vulcan Materials Company
Our local Skippers Quarry team is supported by hundreds of experienced professionals at Vulcan Materials Company, which is an industry leader in safety, health and environmental stewardship. We are the company we are today thanks to the positive actions of our more than 12,000 employees. We believe that doing the right thing, the right way, at the right time is good for our business, our environment and our society. Visit csr.vulcanmaterials.com to learn more about our commitment to safety and health, environmental stewardship, our people and our communities.
Committed to Greensville County
We believe strong communities are built on the actions of people, individually and collectively. Our people are proud to support Greensville County, volunteering their time, talent and funds to the benefit of educational and social causes. And as good neighbors, Skippers Quarry employees find many opportunities to make positive impacts in our communities.
Our commitments:
- Supporting local community and civic groups including Greensville-Emporia Jaycees Benefit programs
- Maintaining education partnerships to foster student learning including Greensville County Schools and Southside VA Community College
- Supporting first responders including Greensville Volunteer Rescue Squad and EMS
- Partnering with organizations that assist members of the community that are aging, sick or hungry including Feedmore, Inc. and Greensville Ruitan
- Maintaining a community feedback line and email to respond to questions or concerns.
Protecting Our People and Community
We have a responsibility to one another, our families, neighbors and communities. Our promise goes beyond regulatory compliance and is reinforced through the everyday actions of our people. Their expertise, dedication and innovation make us a longtime industry leader with proven performance.
Our Commitments:
- Prioritizing a safe work culture by recruiting and hiring people who are as committed to safety as we are.
- Zero MSHA Reportable Injuries: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020.
- Outperforming the industry: achieving 0.47 lost-time injuries per 200,000 employee work hours compared to the industry 1.53 (10-year average)
- MSHA Citation Rate: consistently lower than the Industry.
- Maintaining safe blasting procedures to protect our people, neighboring property and the community.
- Monitoring all blasting through an independent third party.
- Consistently meeting or doing better than the regulated safety blasting limits which are designed to protect people and structures.
We Make Big Rocks Into Small Rocks
What we do is quite simple. But it has to be done The Vulcan Way.
- Engineers design and maintain mine plans which serve as the blueprints for the entire operation. Our inventory is the rock in the ground. It is mined at a rate based on customer demand which is largely tied to the economy.
- Using the mine plans, licensed and trained technicians, adhering to specific depths and patterns, drill holes into the rock.
- Then we safely and precisely remove a specific amount of rock from the ground through highly controlled blasting events that last less than a second.
- Loaders and haul trucks transfer the rock to a primary crusher, which breaks it down into smaller rocks.
- The smaller rock is transported via a conveyor to the processing plant where it is processed, sized and sorted to meet customer specifications.
- Product is shipped via CSX rail and local customer trucks. Local trucks travel through a wheel wash, are weighed, ticketed, tarped and exit via a paved road to prevent track-out onto Quarry Road.
- Trucks are weighed to ensure compliance with weight limits on roadways before traveling to job sites or customer locations for use in homes, businesses, roads and bridges.
A Responsible Steward of the Environment
Vulcan has established a strong record of environmental stewardship and operates Skippers Quarry in an environmentally responsible manner that meets or exceeds local, state and federal laws and regulations.
Our commitments:
- Preserving and protecting local water resources by recycling water, managing stormwater and utilizing effective dust-control measures.
- Vegetated berms and buffer areas surround the site.
- Maintaining a wildlife habitat program that has been Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) certified since 2010.
- Partnering with organizations that share our environmental commitment including Capital Region Land Conservancy, Friends of Lower Appomattox River and VCU Foundation Rice Rivers Center.