Mining Incidents

Forest City Pit: 9 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Brad Wickham's Top Land Service · Surface
Controlled by Brad Wickham
Forest City, Rutherford County, NC  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3102187

Forest City Pit has $975 in proposed MSHA penalties and $60 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 2004
9
citations
1
significant & substantial
$975
proposed penalties
$915
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $60 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
16
inspections on record
155
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: 155 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Forest City Pit has $975 in proposed MSHA penalties and $60 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.
$975
proposed penalties
$975
current assessed
$915
paid to date
$60
outstanding
9 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2015-04-21.
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.
11.1%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
11.1%
reasonably likely or greater
22.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% 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: 2010-03-18, 16 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2010-03-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dredge/Barge 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. M & C Sand Co. 2002 to 2002
  2. Brad Wickham's Top Land Service 2002 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2015 1
2014 1
2013 1
2012 1
2011 1
2010 1
2009 1
2008 1
2007 1
2006 1
2005 1
2004 1
2003 1
2002 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Forest City Pit sits in Rutherford County, North Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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, North Carolina · Population 64,850
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$49,771
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
2015 Q3 4 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 41 1 0 24390.2
2015 Q1 48 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 13 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 11 2 0 181818.2
2014 Q2 22 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 14 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 6 0 0 0.0
Show 36 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2013 Q3 38 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 56 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 47 2 0 42553.2
2012 Q4 45 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 3 1 1 333333.3
2012 Q2 12 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q1 34 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 36 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 27 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 22 1 0 45454.5
2009 Q2 35 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 18 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 65 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 35 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 80 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 20 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 30 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 800 1 0 1250.0
2006 Q4 120 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 156 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 110 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 300 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 300 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 107 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 104 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 180 1 0 5555.6
2004 Q3 360 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 120 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 54 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 0 0 0
2003 Q2 468 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 64 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 180 0 0 0.0

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.