Mining Incidents

Cannon Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Boyd Stone · Surface
Marion, Mcdowell County, NC  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3102211

Cannon Mine has $7K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
37
citations
12
significant & substantial
$6,815
proposed penalties
$6,815
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
34
inspections on record
301
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: 301 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Cannon Mine has $7K 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
35 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-03.
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 98 2 0 20408.2
2025 Q3 132 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 142 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 124 4 0 32258.1
2024 Q4 88 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 112 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 125 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 138 0 0 0.0
Show 71 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 156 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 183 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 146 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 126 1 1 7936.5
2022 Q4 62 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 96 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 132 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 140 1 0 7142.9
2021 Q4 126 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 132 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 120 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 82 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 98 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 92 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 46 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 38 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 64 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 48 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 47 3 2 63829.8
2018 Q4 38 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 37 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 46 7 4 152173.9
2018 Q1 33 1 0 30303.0
2017 Q4 25 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 31 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 27 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 28 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 25 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 27 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 30 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 25 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 14 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 18 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 22 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 27 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 26 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 32 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 26 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 18 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 20 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 12 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 20 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 20 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 0 0 0
2012 Q2 28 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 32 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 26 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 29 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 67 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 12 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 0 0 0
2010 Q2 136 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 152 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 282 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 267 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 140 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 367 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 240 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 360 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 512 1 0 1953.1
2007 Q4 490 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 354 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,220 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 840 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,368 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,938 1 0 516.0
2006 Q2 3,347 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 380 15 5 39473.7

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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