Mining Incidents

Bowers Leasing Company Pit: 5 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Elbert Bowers
Gilbert, Lexington County, SC  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3800669

Bowers Leasing Company Pit has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $578 in penalties since 2000.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
—
Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
5
citations
2
significant & substantial
$578
proposed penalties
$578
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date. The remaining $0 was reduced, settled, contested or is still owed.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
7
inspections on record
41
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: 41 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Bowers Leasing Company Pit has $578 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.
$578
proposed penalties
$578
current assessed
$578
paid to date
$0
outstanding
5 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-08-08.
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.
40.0%
significant & substantial
20.0%
high negligence or reckless
40.0%
reasonably likely or greater
20.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 80.0% moderate, 20.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Bowers Leasing Company Inc 1993 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2007 0
2006 1
2005 1
2004 1
2003 1
2002 1
2001 1
2000 1
1999 1
1998 1
1997 1
1996 1
1995 1
1994 1
1993 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Bowers Leasing Company Pit sits in Lexington County, South Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Lexington County, South Carolina · Population 300,370
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$75,014
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; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. 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
2007 Q3 0 1 0
2007 Q2 0 0 0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q3 0 0 0
2006 Q2 33 2 1 60606.1
2006 Q1 87 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 89 0 0 0.0
Show 23 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2005 Q3 150 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 115 1 0 8695.7
2005 Q1 94 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 128 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 92 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 85 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 49 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 60 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 65 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 70 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 90 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 96 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 90 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 98 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 92 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 75 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 97 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 93 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 101 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 92 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 101 1 1 9901.0
2000 Q2 113 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 128 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.