Piedmont Mining, LLC contractor

Metal / nonmetal

MSHA contractor ID: B2884

Safety record

3
Fatalities: 24
Citations: 760,472
Employee-hours (2000+) ⓘ Rates use contractor-reported employee-hours as the denominator. About 2% of reported hours are dropped as duplicate filings, so the hours total runs slightly low and any per-hour rate reads slightly high. Quarters filed with zero hours are excluded, and hours are reported only from 2000 on.: 3.94
Fatalities / million hrs

31.6 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.

Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

ELECTRICAL 2 fatalities
FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL 1 fatality
POWERED HAULAGE 2 non-fatal
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 2 non-fatal
OTHER 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2025

2024

2023

3 (3f)

2022

2017

2016

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

3 recorded

November 13, 2023 GA · Metal/Non-Metal rotary bucket excavator operator Fatality · FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL

KaMin LLC · Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings

Investigation is ongoing. *A miner died after being engulfed by a collapsing highwall.

January 27, 2023 GA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · ELECTRICAL

KaMin LLC · Contact with electrical current

Investigation is still under way and an autopsy is being performed to determine cause. *Per the prelim: Two contractors were electrocuted when a 14,400-volt overhead power line came in contact with their off-road dump trucks, and the contractors exited their trucks and contacted the ground.

January 27, 2023 GA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · ELECTRICAL

KaMin LLC · Contact with electrical current

Investigation is still ongoing, and an autopsy is being performed to determine the cause. *Per the prelim: Two contractors were electrocuted when a 14,400-volt overhead power line came in contact with their off-road dump trucks, and the contractors exited their trucks and contacted the ground.