Mining Incidents

Bessie Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by William R Bond
Adamsville, Jefferson County, AL  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0103499

Bessie Mine has $5K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2016
28
citations
4
significant & substantial
$4,506
proposed penalties
$4,506
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
22
inspections on record
226
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: 226 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Bessie Mine has $5K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
28 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-05-09.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2025 Q4 2,835 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,640 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 4,417 1 0 226.4
2025 Q1 2,560 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,520 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,632 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,860 1 0 349.7
2024 Q1 2,560 0 0 0.0
Show 28 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,730 2 0 732.6
2023 Q3 2,925 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,402 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3,855 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 3,177 4 2 1259.0
2022 Q3 3,366 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,339 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 4,096 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,320 1 1 431.0
2021 Q3 4,176 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,520 1 0 396.8
2021 Q1 2,520 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,240 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,240 1 0 446.4
2020 Q2 960 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 480 8 0 16666.7
2019 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 510 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,381 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,500 1 0 400.0
2018 Q1 2,612 3 0 1148.5
2017 Q4 2,408 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,714 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 4,360 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 5,430 4 1 736.6
2016 Q4 7,897 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 7,195 1 0 139.0
2016 Q2 11,485 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.

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