Central Drilling Services - Carolina: 27 MSHA citations
Metal/Non-Metal
Central Drilling Services Inc
· Surface
MSHA Mine ID: 5400454
Central Drilling Services - Carolina has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 1
- Years on record
- 2004
- Latest incident
- Mar 2004
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2004
11
significant & substantial
$3,348
proposed penalties
0% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,348 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 86 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Central Drilling Services - Carolina has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
24 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2005-10-06.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
45.8%
significant & substantial
8.3%
high negligence or reckless
45.8%
reasonably likely or greater
58.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 91.7% moderate, 8.3% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
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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)
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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: 2004-06-22, 22 years ago
Most sampled contaminants
- Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (2)
| Date |
Contaminant |
Concentration |
Limit |
Conc / limit |
Occupation |
| 2004-06-22 |
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz |
0.23 |
10 |
0.02 |
Crusher Oper/Worker |
| 2004-06-22 |
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz |
0.15 |
10 |
0.02 |
Cleanup Man |
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.
Ownership history
-
Central Drilling Services Inc
2004 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
| Year |
Employees |
| 2005 |
6 |
| 2004 |
7 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Central Drilling Services - Carolina sits in Fajardo Municipio, Puerto Rico, where the Census mining category is 0.0% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.
Fajardo Municipio, Puerto Rico · Population 31,756
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$25,170
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
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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 |
| 2005 Q3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2005 Q2 |
4,265 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2005 Q1 |
4,265 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2004 Q4 |
3,471 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2004 Q3 |
2,927 |
3 |
0 |
1024.9 |
| 2004 Q2 |
2,447 |
7 |
3 |
2860.6 |
| 2004 Q1 |
1,032 |
16 |
8 |
15503.9 |
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2004 · 1 incident
March 21, 2004
PR · Metal/Non-Metal
laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman
MACHINERY
Unknown operator · Struck against stationary object
DURING INSTALLATION OF NEW SUPPORTS, TO SECURE THE SCREENS ON A PROCESSING MACHINE, WHILE BEING LOWERED, RIGGED TO AN EXCAVATOR BUCKET, OUR EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND GRIPED THE BUCKET OF THE MACHINE FOR SUPPORT CAUSING THE LOSS OF TWO FINGERS AND A CUT TO HIS LEFT LEG.