Mining Incidents

Matthews Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Princeton, Johnston County, NC  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3102337

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2024
Latest incident
Sep 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2019
48
citations
12
significant & substantial
$13,613
proposed penalties
$11,960
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 5,752 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 4,989 4 0 801.8
2025 Q2 6,140 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 4,320 3 0 694.4
2024 Q4 4,128 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 4,790 1 1 208.8
2024 Q2 5,260 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 6,591 8 4 1213.8
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

September 6, 2024 NC · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Carolina Aggregates and Sand Holding LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

3 employees were loading pipe into loader bucket for transport, 2 ground, 1 operator. One miner was standing on pipe inside bucket. A signal was given to rotate the bucket, Miner standing on the pipe had one hand on top of bucket, when bucket rotated the miner's left hand (pointer/middle finger) were lacerated. Miner suffered non-life threatening partial amputation of finger tip.