Mining Incidents

Junction City Hortense Branch Metal/Non-Metal

Junction City · Surface
Controlled by Joseph H Anderson
Kingsland, Brantley County, GA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0901148

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2002–2004
Latest incident
Jul 2004
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
14
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,381
proposed penalties
$1,381
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2004 Q3 10 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 15,921 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 4,300 5 2 1162.8
2003 Q4 2,341 1 0 427.2
2003 Q3 3,120 7 0 2243.6
2003 Q2 2,382 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 2,160 1 0 463.0
2002 Q4 3,240 0 0 0.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2004 · 2 incidents

July 12, 2004 GA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Junction City · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was cleaning clay balls off top of dump hopper. He tripped on clay ball, extendad right arm to break fall, scratched elbow. Possible sprain to right wrist.

July 6, 2004 GA · Metal/Non-Metal pumper HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Junction City · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS CLEANING PIPE OF DEBRIS BY BEATING ON PIPE WITH HAMMER - HIT FINGER WITH HAMMER.

2002 · 1 incident

May 13, 2002 GA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner MACHINERY
Unknown operator · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

USING DRILL TO MAKE HOLE IN MOUNTING BRACKET AND DRILL SLIPPED OFF BRACKET WHEN BRACKET MOVED. DRILL PENETRATED HAND.