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Shade Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Piedmont Mining, LLC · Surface

Controlled by Ted S Smith

Aiken, Aiken County, SC · Active

MSHA Mine ID: 3800720

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2009
Latest incident: Feb 2009

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2008

citations

significant & substantial

$9,653

proposed penalties

$9,089

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	Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4	1,646	3	1822.6
2025 Q3	3,289	0	0.0
2025 Q2	2,095	4	1909.3
2025 Q1	1,012	0	0.0
2024 Q4	1,237	0	0.0
2024 Q3	2,922	0	0.0
2024 Q2	1,732	0	0.0
2024 Q1	1,195	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

2009 · 1 incident

February 23, 2009 SC · Metal/Non-Metal ENTRAPMENT

Piedmont Mining, LLC · Accident type, without injuries

Operator drove the excavator into a sump hole. He was in an area that he should not have been. The operator was trapped inside the cab for approxomately 1.5 hours. The operator was extracted and had no injuries.