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CAROLINA STONE: 80 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Carolina Stone LLC · Surface
Grifton, Craven County, NC  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3102174

CAROLINA STONE has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2006
Latest incident
Oct 2006
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
80
citations
27
significant & substantial
$21,843
proposed penalties
$17,989
paid to date
82% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,854 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Carolina Stone LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
32
inspections on record
463
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: 463 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

CAROLINA STONE has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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.
$22K
proposed penalties
$18K
current assessed
$18K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
79 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $12K in penalties contested before the Commission, $8K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-08-02.
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.
34.2%
significant & substantial
16.5%
high negligence or reckless
34.2%
reasonably likely or greater
58.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 3.8% low, 79.7% moderate, 16.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
19 citations taken to the federal commission · 24% of citations on record
  • Settled 19 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 7 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
31%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$12K proposed, $8K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2009-09-09.
Contested penalties
ⓘ A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
SE 2007-236M Settlement Bulluck 2007 $7K → $5K
SE 2007-182M Settlement Bulluck 2007 $4K → $2K
SE 2009-893M Settlement Gill 2010 $2K → $1K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘ A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘ Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2009-12-03, 16 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
10
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg5
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (10)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2009-12-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2009-12-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2009-12-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2007-09-14 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.28 10 0.03 Front-end Loader Operator
2007-09-14 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.17 10 0.02 Backhoe Operator
2002-01-08 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.2 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-01-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2002-01-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-01-08 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.12 Truck Driver
2002-01-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.37 1.01 0.37 Truck Driver
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.

CAROLINA STONE recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2010.

Injury rate, 2010
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.68 and the all-US-mining average was 3.20 cases per 100 workers.
In North Carolina, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.16 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2010 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2009 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2008 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2007 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2006 * 5.69 5.69 0.000
2005 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2004 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Carolina Stone LLC 2001 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2013 7
2012 9
2011 10
2010 13
2009 10
2008 13
2007 13
2006 17
2005 15
2004 14
2003 13
2002 9
2001 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

CAROLINA STONE sits in Craven County, North Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.6% 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.
Craven County, North Carolina · Population 101,074
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$64,635
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, 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
2013 Q1 842 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,593 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 4,603 3 1 651.7
2012 Q2 4,837 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 5,714 2 1 350.0
2011 Q4 4,370 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 5,022 1 0 199.1
2011 Q2 4,913 1 1 203.5
Show 40 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2011 Q1 4,726 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 6,546 2 1 305.5
2010 Q3 6,650 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 7,282 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 5,803 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 4,876 2 0 410.2
2009 Q3 5,318 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 5,828 2 2 343.2
2009 Q1 5,970 6 3 1005.0
2008 Q4 7,090 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 6,399 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 6,962 2 0 287.3
2008 Q1 7,347 4 0 544.4
2007 Q4 6,454 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 7,762 5 1 644.2
2007 Q2 6,370 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 6,480 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 8,670 17 5 1960.8
2006 Q3 10,218 4 4 391.5
2006 Q2 8,218 10 2 1216.8
2006 Q1 8,033 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 8,250 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 8,214 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 8,686 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 7,299 7 2 959.0
2004 Q4 7,171 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 5,046 3 1 594.5
2004 Q2 8,661 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 8,580 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 6,925 4 2 577.6
2003 Q3 7,354 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 7,734 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 6,756 1 0 148.0
2002 Q4 4,697 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 5,215 2 1 383.5
2002 Q2 5,304 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 4,506 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 3,881 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 3,395 2 0 589.1
2001 Q2 3,840 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2006 · 1 incident

October 5, 2006 NC · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Carolina Stone LLC · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was holding a drive shaft for another person to tap bolt holes. The drill jamed, twisting the drive shaft and the ee's wrist. Dr said he could return to work but he has not do so thus for 10/12/06.