Mining Incidents

Darby Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Madeline B Darby
Sunflower, Washington County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103486

Darby Pit has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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 2015
29
citations
6
significant & substantial
$11,277
proposed penalties
$6,129
paid to date
54% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $5,148 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
12
inspections on record
124
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: 124 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Darby Pit has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
29 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2017-11-29.
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
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 646 2 1 3096.0
2017 Q3 665 5 1 7518.8
2017 Q2 750 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 787 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 911 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,091 3 1 2749.8
2016 Q2 1,430 0 0 0.0
Show 3 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2016 Q1 933 8 0 8574.5
2015 Q4 1,206 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,367 3 1 2194.6

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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