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Mines in Fairfield County, South Carolina

Fairfield County, South Carolina has 8 mines on MSHA's register: 3 active, 5 abandoned. 3 miners have died and 134 accidents have been reported at these mines between 1984 and 2024. Inspectors have issued 157 citations.

Every mine MSHA has registered in Fairfield County, working or not, with the accident, fatality and citation record each one carries on this site. Active mines are listed first, then the rest by the weight of their record.

Abandoned and historical mine features in Fairfield County →

Mines on register
8
Active
3
Fatalities on record
3
Citations issued
157
0 underground · 8 surface · 0 facilities 0 coal · 8 metal and non-metal 5 abandoned 134 reported accidents, 1984–2024
Local economic context
ⓘ County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Fairfield County, South Carolina · Population 20,741
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$46,972
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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MSHA-registered mine, any status

Mines plot only where MSHA holds a surveyed coordinate for the site; mines the agency locates to a town, county or state centroid are in the counts and the list above but not drawn. Click a point for the mine's status and record.

Operators with the most mines herecurrent operator of record
Operator Mines Active Fatalities
Kennecott Ridgeway Mining Company 1 0 3
Interstate Materials Inc 1 0 0
Luck Stone Corporation 1 1 0
Martin Marietta Aggregates 1 0 0
Mellott Company 1 0 0
Newberry Sand Incorporated 1 1 0
Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC 1 1 0
Winnsboro Granite Corp 1 0 0
Mines in Fairfield County8 on register
  1. BLAIR QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC · MSHA ID 3800010
    Active
  2. Newberry Sand Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Newberry Sand Incorporated · MSHA ID 3800724
    Active
  3. Fairfield Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Luck Stone Corporation · MSHA ID 3800761
    Active
  4. RIDGEWAY MINE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kennecott Ridgeway Mining Company · MSHA ID 3800626
    Abandoned
  5. LuckStone-Fairfield Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mellott Company · MSHA ID 3800764
    Abandoned
  6. Anderson Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Winnsboro Granite Corp · MSHA ID 3800017
    Abandoned
  7. Job 126 Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Interstate Materials Inc · MSHA ID 3800257
    Abandoned
  8. Superior Stone Co Rion Quarry & Mil
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Aggregates · MSHA ID 3800015
    Abandoned

Status, type and operator are as reported to MSHA. Fatality and accident counts are MSHA's reportable accident records for the mine; citations are inspector-issued violations on record. Each mine's own page carries the full detail.

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How to read these numbers

The register is MSHA's Mine Data Retrieval System: every operation ever assigned a mine ID, including ones abandoned decades ago, so the count is a history of mining in the county, not a count of working mines. A mine's county is the one its operator reported to MSHA. Fatality and accident counts start with MSHA's reportable-accident records (1983 onward); citation counts are inspector-issued violations on record. We are an independent research tool, not MSHA.