Mining Incidents

17-A DIRT PIT Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Butler Ware
Moncks Corner, Berkeley County, SC  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3800631

17-A DIRT PIT has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
40
citations
13
significant & substantial
$3,819
proposed penalties
$3,688
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $131 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
18
inspections on record
253
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 253 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

17-A DIRT PIT has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
40 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-09-17.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2004 Q3 0 0 0
2004 Q2 0 0 0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 94 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 128 1 0 7812.5
2003 Q2 1,218 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 89 0 0 0.0
Show 11 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2002 Q3 760 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 736 3 1 4076.1
2002 Q1 795 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 2,083 4 1 1920.3
2001 Q3 1,045 1 1 956.9
2001 Q2 4,067 20 6 4917.6
2001 Q1 1,882 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 10 9 2 900000.0
2000 Q3 760 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 586 2 2 3413.0
2000 Q1 566 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.

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The full compliance file on 17-A DIRT PIT

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.