Bear Creek Mica Plant has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Years on record
1984–2000
Latest incident
Sep 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
24
citations
6
significant & substantial
$2,092
proposed penalties
$2,092
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
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: 109 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Bear Creek Mica Plant has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
24 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2000-11-14.
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: 2000-11-15, 25 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
2000-11-15
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.65
2.58
0.25
Bagging 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.
Bear Creek Mica Plant recorded 6.40 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2000.
Injury rate, 2000
ⓘ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.
6.40
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.77 and the all-US-mining average was 5.64 cases per 100 workers.
In North Carolina, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.49 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.
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
2008
1
2007
2
2001
7
2000
34
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Bear Creek Mica Plant sits in Mitchell County, North Carolina, where the Census mining category is 6.2% 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.
Mitchell County, North Carolina · Population 14,973
6.2%
Mining share of county employment
$58,089
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
2008 Q3
0
0
0
2008 Q2
0
0
0
2008 Q1
573
0
0
0.0
2007 Q4
1,407
0
0
0.0
2007 Q3
1,827
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
1,979
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
13,135
5
0
380.7
2000 Q3
14,053
6
2
427.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2000 Q2
15,278
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
20,039
11
3
548.9
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
10 on file
2000 · 2 incidents
September 21, 2000NC · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
THE EE INJURED HIS BACK WHILE ATTEMPTING TO LIFT A STEEL DOCK BOARD. THE DOCK BOARD WAS WEDGED BETWEEN AN OLD MECHANICAL DOCK BOARD AND THE CONCRETE FLOOR OF THE WAREHOUSE.
September 1, 2000NC · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techPOWERED HAULAGE
MAINTENANCE CREW WAS USING A HOISTING STRAP AND FORKLIFT TO RAISE THE STEEL TOP OFF OF A JET PULVERIZER MILL WHEN THE STRAP SLIPPED FROM THE FOR5KS. THE STEEL PLATE DROPPED APPROX. 1/2" ONTO T HE MAINTENANCE EE'S MIDDLE FINGER. THE BONE IN THE TIP OF HIS MIDDLE FINGER WAS FRACTURED. HE WAS RELEASED FROM THE DOCTOR AND CLEARED TO RETURN TO WORK.
1999 · 1 incident
December 10, 1999NC · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorOTHER
EE WAS PERFORMING WORK DUTIES FROM A MAN-LIFT, LOST FOOTING DUE TO WET ORE (MICA) ON SHOES. BODY WEIGHT CAME DOWN ON HANDRAIL HURTING RIB.
1994 · 3 incidents
August 22, 1994NC · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Aspect Minerals Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EE HAD JUST EMPTIED METAL DUMP HOPPER. AFTER DUMPING, THE HOPPER HAS TO BE SNAPPED BACK INTO LOCK POSITION. EE DID NOT USE BOTH HANDS ON TOP OF HOPPER TO CLOSE THE LATCH, HE ROCKED THE HOPPER BACK ONTO HIS RIGHT HAND. DR CORT AT SPRUCE PINE HOPSITAL CLEANED WOUND AND PUT STITCHES IN FIRST TWO FINGERS OF RIGHT HAND.
May 12, 1994NC · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Aspect Minerals Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EMPLOYEE STARTED TO MOVE A PIECE OF 6" PIPE APPROX. 10' LONG. WHEN THE PIPE MOVED, IT MASHED THE TIP OF HIS FINGER ON LEFT HAND.
March 23, 1994NC · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
SMALL AMOUNT OF LIQUID FLOCULENT HAD BEEN SPILLED ON FLOOR MAKING A SLIPPERY CONDITION
1990 · 1 incident
February 21, 1990NC · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techMACHINERY
J M Huber Corp · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
EMPL STANDING ON PARTITION BETWEEN 2 SETTLING TANKS WITH RAKES INSIDE THEM.DROPPED HAMMER INTO NON-OPERATING SETTLING TANK,REACHED TO GET IT AND EXTENDED LEFT LEG BACKWARDS INTO OPERATING SETT LING TANK AND RAKE SHOVED KNEE INTO STEEL BAR.
EMPLOYEE WAS AT2P OF PALLET OF MICA RAISED BY A FORKLIFT CHANGING A LIGHT BULB WHEN THE SAID PALLET LEANED TO OPERATORS LEFT MAN FELL TO RT ON TOP OF MICA PACKED TWO PALLETS HIGH THEN FELL AGA IN @10FT TO FLO2R & LANDED ON NIS LEFT HEEL INJURING THE SAME
1984 · 1 incident
January 25, 1984NC · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorMACHINERY