Mining Incidents

Earth Resources Inc: 21 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Earth Resources, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Dan T Brown
Lancaster, Lancaster County, VA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4407339

Earth Resources Inc has $3K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
21
citations
6
significant & substantial
$2,899
proposed penalties
$2,899
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
25
inspections on record
430
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: 430 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Earth Resources Inc has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
21 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-02-06.
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.
28.6%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
28.6%
reasonably likely or greater
42.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 4.8% low, 95.2% moderate, 0.0% 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: 2026-06-03
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (7)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-06-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2026-06-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-08-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-08-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2021-08-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2018-02-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.72 0.18 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-06-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 0.47 0.55 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.
Ownership history
  1. Earth Resources, Inc. 2015 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 3
2024 3
2023 3
2022 3
2021 3
2020 3
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
2016 2
2015 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Earth Resources Inc sits in Lancaster County, Virginia, 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.
Lancaster County, Virginia · Population 10,876
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$67,169
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 1,240 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 888 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 1,039 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,114 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,122 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 877 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,086 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,027 0 0 0.0
Show 38 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 705 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,043 1 0 958.8
2023 Q4 961 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,055 2 0 1895.7
2023 Q2 1,054 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,097 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 947 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,117 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,082 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 994 1 0 1006.0
2021 Q4 1,132 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,065 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 575 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,032 2 1 1938.0
2020 Q4 671 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 794 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 656 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 599 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 493 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,018 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 568 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 555 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 508 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 540 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 557 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 543 1 0 1841.6
2017 Q4 514 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 569 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 559 2 0 3577.8
2017 Q1 558 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 509 5 1 9823.2
2016 Q3 546 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 612 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 522 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 537 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 532 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 548 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 513 7 4 13645.2

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.