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County Mine: 40 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Rutherford County · Surface
Controlled by Rutherford County-Tn
Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, TN  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4000086

County Mine has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1998–2008
Latest incident
Sep 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
40
citations
7
significant & substantial
$3,881
proposed penalties
$3,881
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Rutherford County's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
59
inspections on record
600
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: 600 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

County Mine has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
40 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-08-25.
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.
17.5%
significant & substantial
2.5%
high negligence or reckless
17.5%
reasonably likely or greater
75.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.0% low, 92.5% moderate, 2.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2024-12-18
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
11
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz2
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (11)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-12-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-09-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-08-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-01-05 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.16 10 0.02 Laborer, Bullgang
2012-03-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-09-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2001-05-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 1.78 0.11 Bulldozer Operator
2001-05-30 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.17 10 0.02 Truck Driver
2001-05-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2001-05-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2001-05-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 2.42 0.12 Front-end Loader Operator
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.

County Mine recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2003.

Injury rate, 2003
ⓘ 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 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.43 cases per 100 workers.
In Tennessee, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.97 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
2003 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2002 * 7.44 7.44 0.000
2001 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2000 * 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. Rutherford County 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 3
2012 2
2011 2
2010 2
2009 4
2008 7
2007 9
2006 9
2005 10
2004 10
2003 11
2002 14
2001 14
2000 14
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

County Mine sits in Rutherford County, Tennessee, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Rutherford County, Tennessee · Population 351,591
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$82,588
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
2026 Q2 481 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 431 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 431 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 511 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 491 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 481 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 431 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 501 0 0 0.0
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 501 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 471 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 451 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 501 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 481 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 491 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 441 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 451 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 481 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 471 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 411 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 511 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 501 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 481 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 461 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 501 1 0 1996.0
2020 Q2 431 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 441 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 471 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 481 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 501 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 471 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 451 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 491 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 501 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 461 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 471 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 501 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 501 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 491 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 471 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 491 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 511 1 0 1956.9
2016 Q1 471 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 451 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 511 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 501 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 481 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 461 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 451 2 0 4434.6
2014 Q2 491 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 481 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 471 1 0 2123.1
2013 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,470 1 0 680.3
2013 Q1 1,380 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 960 1 0 1041.7
2012 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 960 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 960 1 0 1041.7
2011 Q4 960 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 960 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 960 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 960 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 960 1 0 1041.7
2010 Q2 960 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1,440 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,440 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,440 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 2,400 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 2,400 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 2,880 3 1 1041.7
2008 Q3 3,360 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 3,360 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 3,360 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 4,320 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 4,320 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,320 2 0 463.0
2007 Q1 4,320 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 4,320 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 4,320 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 4,320 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 4,320 1 0 231.5
2005 Q4 4,320 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 4,320 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 4,800 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 4,800 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 4,800 9 2 1875.0
2004 Q3 4,800 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 4,800 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 4,800 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 4,800 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 5,280 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 5,280 1 0 189.4
2003 Q1 5,760 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 6,720 2 1 297.6
2002 Q3 6,720 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 6,720 2 1 297.6
2002 Q1 6,720 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 6,720 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 6,720 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 6,720 8 2 1190.5
2001 Q1 6,720 1 0 148.8
2000 Q4 6,720 1 0 148.8
2000 Q3 6,720 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 6,720 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 6,720 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2008 · 1 incident

September 25, 2008 TN · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Rutherford County · Struck against stationary object

Electric motor stalled causing hammer mill to clog with stone. Employees were cleaning stone from hammer mill when he was struck in the head knocking off hard hat causing injury to head & neck.

2002 · 1 incident

February 13, 2002 TN · Metal/Non-Metal truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Rutherford County · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INSTALLING HAMMERS IN CRUSHER. ROLLING CRUSHER BACK THUMB GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN BELT & PULLEY.

1998 · 1 incident

April 15, 1998 TN · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Rutherford County · Struck against stationary object

WORKING ON DRILL AND WRENCH SLIPPED OFF AND CUT RIGHT INDEX FINGER ON SHARP PIECE OF METAL. REQUIRED 6 STITCHES.