Mining Incidents

Acme Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Acme Brick Company · Surface
Controlled by Berkshire Hathaway Inc
Weir, Cherokee County, KS  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1400210

MSHA record for Acme Pit (mine ID 1400210). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
10
inspections on record
61
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: 61 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2003-04-09, 23 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
1
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2003-04-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.3 1.45 0.21 Front-end Loader Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Acme Brick Company 1950 to 2000
  2. Acme Building Brands 2000 to 2001
  3. Acme Brick Company 2002 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2009 0
2008 1
2007 1
2006 1
2005 1
2004 1
2003 1
2002 1
2001 1
2000 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Acme Pit sits in Cherokee County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 0.2% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Cherokee County, Kansas · Population 19,236
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$58,274
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 0 0 0
2008 Q2 40 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
Show 31 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2007 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 524 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 553 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 388 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 559 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 513 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 516 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 512 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 556 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 514 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 472 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 550 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 470 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 545 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 540 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 513 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 472 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 334 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 497 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 478 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 400 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 506 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 497 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 557 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 441 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 471 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 513 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 439 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 455 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 428 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 470 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.