Mining Incidents

C120-004 Metal/Non-Metal

Mellott Company LLC · Surface
Controlled by Jonathan Schilowitz
Warfordsburg, Kershaw County, SC  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3610248

C120-004 has $869 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2019
Latest incident
Oct 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2018
6
citations
0
significant & substantial
$869
proposed penalties
$869
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
17
inspections on record
94
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: 94 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

C120-004 has $869 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$869
proposed penalties
$869
current assessed
$869
paid to date
$0
outstanding
6 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-21.
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 2,239 1 0 446.6
2025 Q3 2,848 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,996 3 0 1001.3
2025 Q1 2,710 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,606 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,794 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,821 1 0 354.5
2024 Q1 3,074 0 0 0.0
Show 22 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,331 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,395 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,173 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,482 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,096 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,121 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,140 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,450 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,836 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,325 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,398 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,857 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,986 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,447 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,136 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,294 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,392 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,107 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,438 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,167 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 2,089 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,387 1 0 721.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2019 · 1 incident

October 30, 2019 SC · Metal/Non-Metal groundman, yardman STRIKING OR BUMPING
Mellott Company LLC · Struck against stationary object

Welding angle under a screen. Welder ground was not making contact, so employee took off hard hat to crawl out of narrow opening and stood up without EE's hard hat and hit EE's head on a 3/8" bolt.

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