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: 488 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘA Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2010-11-30.
On record since 2010.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
Barefoot Pit has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
55 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-26.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘShares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2023-08-09, 3 years ago
8
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg7
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (8)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2023-08-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2023-08-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2023-08-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Bulldozer Operator
2023-08-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2023-08-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2019-01-30
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2019-01-30
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.2
Front-end Loader Operator
2011-06-02
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
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.
Barefoot Pit recorded 6.30 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
6.30
total case rate
6.30
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In South Carolina, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.42 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2025 *
6.30
6.30
0.000
2024 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2011 *
8.54
8.54
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
13
2025
13
2024
11
2023
7
2022
7
2021
5
2020
9
2019
6
2018
6
2017
5
2016
6
2015
6
2014
5
2013
13
2012
13
2011
19
2010
20
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Barefoot Pit sits in Horry County, South Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Horry County, South Carolina · Population 368,937
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$64,623
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
2026 Q2
8,085
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
7,523
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
7,546
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
8,773
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
8,477
3
1
353.9
2025 Q1
6,929
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
8,179
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
7,080
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
5,315
2
1
376.3
2024 Q1
4,677
1
0
213.8
2023 Q4
4,718
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
3,826
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
4,033
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
4,566
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
4,296
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
4,550
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
4,306
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
2,875
0
0
0.0
2021 Q4
3,204
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
3,315
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
3,019
0
0
0.0
2021 Q1
3,020
1
0
331.1
2020 Q4
4,398
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
8,868
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
5,389
0
0
0.0
2020 Q1
2,961
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
3,443
2
1
580.9
2019 Q3
3,054
0
0
0.0
2019 Q2
2,930
0
0
0.0
2019 Q1
3,006
2
0
665.3
2018 Q4
2,325
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
3,537
1
0
282.7
2018 Q2
3,977
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
3,232
0
0
0.0
2017 Q4
2,757
0
0
0.0
2017 Q3
2,982
0
0
0.0
2017 Q2
3,687
0
0
0.0
2017 Q1
3,451
2
0
579.5
2016 Q4
3,921
0
0
0.0
2016 Q3
4,572
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
3,552
0
0
0.0
2016 Q1
4,553
0
0
0.0
2015 Q4
3,424
0
0
0.0
2015 Q3
4,246
2
0
471.0
2015 Q2
4,488
0
0
0.0
2015 Q1
4,174
0
0
0.0
2014 Q4
2,616
5
1
1911.3
2014 Q3
2,671
0
0
0.0
2014 Q2
3,147
3
0
953.3
2014 Q1
2,796
0
0
0.0
2013 Q4
3,739
1
0
267.5
2013 Q3
2,409
0
0
0.0
2013 Q2
1,827
1
1
547.3
2013 Q1
1,369
0
0
0.0
2012 Q4
1,259
1
0
794.3
2012 Q3
1,116
0
0
0.0
2012 Q2
1,389
0
0
0.0
2012 Q1
4,316
0
0
0.0
2011 Q4
4,585
1
0
218.1
2011 Q3
8,545
0
0
0.0
2011 Q2
2,376
4
0
1683.5
2011 Q1
7,918
0
0
0.0
2010 Q4
3,376
24
7
7109.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file
2025 · 1 incident
September 18, 2025SC · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerMACHINERY
Loading raw coquina into crusher w/Trackhoe; material dislodged and slid into the cab area with a coquina rock, approx 25 lbs., hitting the operator in the right knee area causing pain. EE was taken to ER to be checked and discharged the same day.
EE was checking a hose on top of a water truck to make sure water was pumping into the tank. EE unfolded ladder to climb up and caught his finger in the pinch point of the ladder as he stepped onto the first rung of the ladder.