Mining Incidents

Elk Creek Metal/Non-Metal

Buechel Stone Corp. · Surface
Boone, Watauga County, NC  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3102313

Elk Creek has $10K 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
1
Years on record
2024
Latest incident
Jan 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
38
citations
11
significant & substantial
$9,949
proposed penalties
$9,949
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
24
inspections on record
339
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: 339 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Elk Creek has $10K 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
36 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-08.
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 0 0 0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 6 2
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
Show 25 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 0 1 0
2023 Q2 722 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,128 1 1 886.5
2022 Q4 1,245 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,151 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,392 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,277 2 2 1566.2
2021 Q4 1,155 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,125 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 460 2 0 4347.8
2021 Q1 761 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,302 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,434 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,040 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 884 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 338 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 0 0 0
2019 Q2 0 7 2
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q3 372 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 448 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 378 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 272 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 50 17 4 340000.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2024 · 1 incident

January 25, 2024 NC · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Buechel Stone Corp. · Struck by rolling or sliding object

Rock rolled down the Sherpa onto the splitter table; employee was not able to move fast enough to get hand out of the way.

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