Equipment went down, trucks backed up

The Oconee County quarry director accepts the blame for a failure to communicate with customers that sparked complaints when the rock crusher went out of service this morning for three and a half hours. The quarry director, Mickey Kerr, is hopeful dissatisfied customers will bear with him and staff as they work to ensure smoother and better operations. Kerr says the employees are not to blame for a situation that caused the crusher to sit idle during a normal, busy three and a half hour period this morning. Amanda Brock, county administrator, after went to the quarry this afternoon told 101.7/WGOG NEWS: “I discovered Sandvik employees, alongside Oconee County Rock Quarry employees, making sure the issues from this morning had been resolved and doing some quality control and testing of the rock that was being produced. As far as when I left this afternoon, about 3 o’clock, we were on the all-clear. Mobile plant is up and running and we should have plenty of rock on the ground Monday morning when we re-open for business.” Kerr says his staff will put in overtime to ensure things run well Monday morning and avoid a repeat of this morning. Two Oconee County councilmen said they received. One of the councilmen, Wayne McCall, says the problem dates back to the summer but has worsened in the last two days—resulting in truck drivers having to wait long times to buy crushed rock to haul to job sites.