Mining Incidents

Elk Creek Metal/Non-Metal

Buechel Stone Corp. · Surface
Boone, Watauga County, NC  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3102313

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2024
Latest incident
Jan 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
38
citations
11
significant & substantial
$9,949
proposed penalties
$9,798
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
2025 Q4 0 0 0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 6 2
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 10 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

1 on file

2024 · 1 incident

January 25, 2024 NC · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Buechel Stone Corp. · Struck by rolling or sliding object

Rock rolled down the Sherpa onto the splitter table; employee was not able to move fast enough to get hand out of the way.