Mining Incidents

Columbia Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Jaime S M French
Columbia, Marion County, MS  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2200818

Columbia Plant has $2K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2014
17
citations
5
significant & substantial
$2,447
proposed penalties
$2,436
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $11 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
15
inspections on record
145
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: 145 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Columbia Plant has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
17 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-02-27.
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 284 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 103 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 306 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 98 1 0 10204.1
2024 Q4 194 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 191 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 177 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 72 0 0 0.0
Show 38 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 124 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 124 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 129 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 124 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 250 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 500 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 504 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 543 3 2 5524.9
2021 Q4 508 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 563 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 619 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 361 1 1 2770.1
2020 Q4 4,533 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 556 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 417 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 140 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 583 1 0 1715.3
2019 Q3 512 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 277 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 196 1 0 5102.0
2018 Q4 614 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 619 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 661 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 110 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 95 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 6 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 39 1 0 25641.0
2016 Q4 3 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 11 1 0 90909.1
2016 Q2 178 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 298 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 826 2 0 2421.3
2015 Q3 616 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 658 2 1 3039.5
2015 Q1 371 1 0 2695.4
2014 Q4 501 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 485 3 1 6185.6

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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