Mining Incidents

Best Lime Manufacturing Metal/Non-Metal

West Eminence, Shannon County, MO  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2302549

Best Lime Manufacturing has $33K in proposed MSHA penalties and $22K outstanding across 2 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 2020
75
citations
20
significant & substantial
$32,542
proposed penalties
$10,698
paid to date
33% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $21,844 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
18
inspections on record
377
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: 377 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Best Lime Manufacturing has $33K in proposed MSHA penalties and $22K outstanding across 2 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.
$33K
proposed penalties
$33K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$22K
outstanding
67 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-01-22.
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 1,440 10 3 6944.4
2025 Q3 1,440 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 960 6 3 6250.0
2025 Q1 960 20 2 20833.3
2024 Q4 960 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,200 3 0 2500.0
2024 Q2 800 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 800 0 0 0.0
Show 13 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,000 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,000 12 5 12000.0
2023 Q2 1,040 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 960 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,020 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,280 1 0 781.2
2022 Q2 1,560 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,040 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,560 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,040 1 0 961.5
2021 Q2 1,040 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,560 3 1 1923.1
2020 Q4 1,560 4 3 2564.1

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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