Mining Incidents

Gordon County Mine (Chert) Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Gordon County-GA
Sugar Valley, Gordon County, GA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0901168

Gordon County Mine (Chert) has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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 2006
28
citations
9
significant & substantial
$3,905
proposed penalties
$3,905
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
53
inspections on record
539
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: 539 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Gordon County Mine (Chert) has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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
27 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-04-23.
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 1,200 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,567 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,348 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,499 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,364 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,405 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,232 1 0 811.7
2024 Q1 1,436 0 0 0.0
Show 71 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,271 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,532 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,309 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,468 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,286 4 0 3110.4
2022 Q3 1,530 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,464 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,511 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,528 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,535 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,503 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,272 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,454 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,323 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,580 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,294 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,475 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,319 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,545 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,263 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,519 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 856 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,295 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,276 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,496 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,324 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,300 3 1 2307.7
2017 Q1 849 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,458 1 0 685.9
2016 Q3 1,489 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,183 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,323 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,418 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,465 2 0 1365.2
2015 Q2 1,216 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,440 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,190 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 978 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 382 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 497 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 409 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,527 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 425 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 483 1 1 2070.4
2012 Q4 405 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 948 1 0 1054.9
2012 Q2 1,304 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 502 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 450 2 0 4444.4
2011 Q3 1,417 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 481 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 408 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 463 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 453 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 504 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 430 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 767 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 870 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,039 1 0 962.5
2009 Q1 987 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,533 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,280 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,557 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 482 1 0 2074.7
2007 Q4 1,770 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,575 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 2,080 3 1 1442.3
2007 Q1 1,632 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,649 5 4 3032.1
2006 Q3 1,459 3 2 2056.2
2006 Q2 1,522 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.

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