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: 516 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Forsyth has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
28 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-01-12.
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: 2024-11-06
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
12
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg8
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
Show the individual readings (12)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2024-11-06
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2024-11-06
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Lab Technician
2024-11-06
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Building Repair/Maint.
2024-11-06
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Complete Load-Haul-Dump
2022-09-14
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-09-14
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2006-05-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.96
2.14
0.45
Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-03-17
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.18
0.64
0.28
Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-03-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2001-10-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2001-02-21
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
0.3
0.50
Cleanup Man
2001-02-21
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.29
0.67
0.43
Crusher Oper/Worker
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.
Forsyth recorded 8.71 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ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.
8.71
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Georgia, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.20 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.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2025 *
8.71
0.00
0.000
2024 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2007 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2006 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2005 *
9.61
0.00
0.000
2001 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
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
2026
11
2025
10
2024
9
2023
9
2022
7
2021
7
2020
8
2009
4
2008
7
2007
9
2006
8
2005
8
2004
7
2003
7
2002
6
2001
8
2000
7
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Forsyth sits in Forsyth County, Georgia, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Forsyth County, Georgia · Population 260,062
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$138,000
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
Two EEs had been tasked with relocating a portable dewatering pump due to insufficient rainfall over the past few months. The EE's were uncoupling the intake line when the hose fell, and the metal flange locking collar struck the EE's hand. The EE suffered a laceration during the event and immediately went to the clinic, where they received five stitches and restricted work duty.
2020 · 1 incident
August 5, 2020GA · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Miner was fixing a faulty door that would not stay shut in the scale house. Miner was using a utility knife to cut wooden shims. The knife slipped off the shim and lacerated miner's inner thigh. Conditions in the scale house were a controlled environment. The cut received 10 stitches to close, and the miner came back to work on the same day for normal duties.
2005 · 1 incident
February 18, 2005GA · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EE WAS CHECKING TRUCK BEFORE BEGINNING OF SHIFT. AS EE WAS STEPPING DOWN OFF OF THE A25C, MISSED THE STEP AND FELL TO THE GROUND, TURNING LEFT ANKLE WHICH SWELLED IMMEDIATELY.
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