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: 240 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Dalton Plant has $7K 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
38 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-06-06.
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.
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: 2007-06-06, 19 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
5
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (5)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2007-06-06
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
1.05
10
0.11
Utility Man
2007-06-06
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
1.93
10
0.19
Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-05-17
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
3.11
3.3
0.94
Truck Loader
2005-05-17
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
1.21
Hammer Mill Operator
2000-07-11
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
1.35
Truck Loader
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.
Dalton Plant recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2000.
Injury rate, 2000
ⓘ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
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.77 and the all-US-mining average was 5.64 cases per 100 workers.
In Georgia, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.39 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.
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2007
6
2006
7
2005
8
2004
8
2003
8
2002
8
2001
9
2000
9
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Dalton Plant sits in Whitfield County, Georgia, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Whitfield County, Georgia · Population 103,118
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$64,262
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
2007 Q4
2,606
0
0
0.0
2007 Q3
3,336
0
0
0.0
2007 Q2
3,841
3
0
781.0
2007 Q1
4,224
0
0
0.0
2006 Q4
4,066
6
3
1475.7
2006 Q3
4,394
8
1
1820.7
2006 Q2
4,884
0
0
0.0
2006 Q1
4,788
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2005 Q4
4,634
1
0
215.8
2005 Q3
4,667
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
5,134
2
0
389.6
2005 Q1
3,868
2
0
517.1
2004 Q4
4,793
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
4,362
1
0
229.3
2004 Q2
4,476
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
4,973
0
0
0.0
2003 Q4
4,862
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
4,922
0
0
0.0
2003 Q2
4,974
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
4,628
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
4,793
2
1
417.3
2002 Q3
5,006
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
4,087
1
0
244.7
2002 Q1
5,043
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
4,430
3
1
677.2
2001 Q3
4,393
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
5,198
1
0
192.4
2001 Q1
5,820
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
5,329
2
1
375.3
2000 Q3
5,087
3
0
589.7
2000 Q2
5,358
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
4,794
2
0
417.2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
3 on file
2007 · 1 incident
June 7, 2007GA · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techMACHINERY
Imerys Marble Inc · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects
Employee removed an inspection plate cover just below the airlock feeder on the cyclone located on Silo #3. The airlock feeder was running; employee's right hand contacted the airlock rotor, cutting off tips of the index, middle and ring fingers. Employee was treated at local ER.
WET ROAD CONDITIONS. DRIVER LOST CONTROL OF TRACTOR IN CURVE ON HWY 136 EAST, PICKENS CO., GA. STRUCK ANOTHER TRUCK AND WENT DOWN AN EMBANKMENT. CAB CAME LOOSE FROM FRAME AND LANDED ON BOTTOM OF A STEEP BANK. SPEED WAS NOT A FACTOR JUST WET ROAD CONDITIONS ON PAVEMENT WHICH LEAD TO A LOSS OF CONTROL. DRIVER RECEIVED A BROKEN LEG, TWO BROKEN RIBS AND A CUT ON FOREHEAD.
1992 · 1 incident
June 18, 1992GA · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorPOWERED HAULAGE
TAKING SAMPLE FROM A BULK TRUCK JUST LOADED. WHEN THE CABLE HOLDING THE LOADING SPOUT IN THE RETRACTED POSITION BROKE.THIS ALLOWED THE SPOUT TO FREE-FALL ONTO EMPL HAND BEFORE EMPL COULD MOVE OUT OF THE WAY.