Gordonsville Plant has $25K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
9
Years on record
1984–2010
Latest incident
Apr 2010
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
131
citations
40
significant & substantial
$25,177
proposed penalties
$23,084
paid to date
92% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,093 gap.
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.
131 citations across 1,147 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘA Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2011-06-28.
On record since 2011.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
Gordonsville Plant has $25K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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.
$25K
proposed penalties
$23K
current assessed
$23K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
128 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $11K in penalties contested before the Commission, $9K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-01.
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.
When citations were contested
ⓘContesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
35citations taken to the federal commission · 27% of citations on record
Settled
35 · 100%
93%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘCounts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 14 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
19%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$11K proposed, $9K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2010-07-20.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
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: 2025-10-02
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
40
samples
9
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg30
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz6
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz4
Show the individual readings (40)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-10-02
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2025-10-02
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2025-10-02
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2025-10-02
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2023-09-26
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2023-09-26
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2023-09-26
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.73
2.5
0.29
Truck Driver
2023-09-26
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.17
0.93
0.18
Utility Man
2021-11-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2021-11-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2021-11-16
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
Laborer, Bullgang
2018-07-10
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
4.03
10
0.40
Front-end Loader Operator
2018-07-10
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.21
10
0.02
Front-end Loader Operator
2018-07-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Skip Dumper, Toploader, Tipple Operator
2016-06-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Supervisor, Co. Official
2016-06-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2016-06-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2016-06-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2016-06-29
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.66
2.88
0.23
Crusher Oper/Worker
2011-11-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2011-11-08
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.13
10
0.01
Laborer, Bullgang
2011-10-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2011-10-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2011-10-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2011-09-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2011-09-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2011-09-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2010-09-02
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2008-10-22
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2008-10-22
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2008-10-22
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.49
0.78
0.63
Front-end Loader Operator
2007-09-13
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.55
0.85
0.65
Laborer, Bullgang
2004-12-01
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2004-12-01
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.15
10
0.02
Front-end Loader Operator
2004-12-01
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-12-01
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2003-10-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2003-10-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-10-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2003-10-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
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.
Gordonsville Plant recorded 0.00 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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below 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 Tennessee, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.25 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 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2018 *
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
38
2025
37
2024
36
2023
30
2022
27
2021
29
2020
20
2019
28
2018
20
2017
20
2016
23
2015
20
2014
18
2013
20
2012
12
2011
12
2010
11
2009
13
2008
10
2007
11
2006
9
2005
9
2004
9
2003
8
2002
9
2001
10
2000
14
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Gordonsville Plant sits in Smith County, Tennessee, where the Census mining category is 1.0% 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.
Smith County, Tennessee · Population 20,196
1.0%
Mining share of county employment
$62,799
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
Employee went to location to check the position of the radial stacker. When leaving the employee suffered sudden cardiac death due to myocardial infarction and coronary artery disease.
2003 · 1 incident
May 8, 2003TN · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techMACHINERY
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING 2 PIECES OF METAL FOR THE SIDES OF AN L-220 VOLO LOADER BUCKET. AFTER CUTTING METAL 1" X 29" X 9" EMPLOYEE REACHED WITH LEFT HAND TO FREE METAL FROM THE PIECE WHICH IT WAS CUT FROM. WHEN IT BENDED SLIPPED FROM HIS HAND DROPPING ON TOP OF RIGHT INDEX FINGER. THE CUT TOOK 5 STITCHES. THE EMPLOYEE WAS WEARING GLOVES.
SHE WAS RUSHING THROUGH OFFICE TO COMPLETE PAYROLL; TRIPPED OVER RUG. SHE HAD PREVIOUSLY INJURED HER KNEE OVER WEEKEND. SHE HAD SURGERY ON RIGHT KNEE FOR DISLOCATED KNEE CAP. SHE IS NOW HAV ING A SECOND SURGERY FOR SAME INJURY.
1999 · 1 incident
September 20, 1999TN · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE HAD TO LEAVE PLANT TO STOP OVERFLOW DID NOT HAVE AUTOMATIC ADJUSTER WHILE RUSHING TO MILL TWISTED HIS BACK. HAD BACK SURGERY & NO PERMANENT RESTRICTIONS
1989 · 1 incident
January 12, 1989TN · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
FELL AGAINST CROSS BRACE ON FEEDER FOR CONE CRUSHER. DID NOT REPORT ACCIDENT UNTIL MONDAY WHEN SEEN BY THE DOCTOR. PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION WAS GIVEN AND EMPLOYEE RETURNED TO WORK ON TUESDAY.
1988 · 1 incident
August 17, 1988TN · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING DIRT HIS LEFT HAND SLIPPED AND STRUCK SOME STEEL LYING ON THE CONCRETE HE SAW A DOCTOR AND HAD ARM X-RAYED X-RAY SHOWED FRACTURE ABOVE LEFT WRIST THE DOCTOR REPORTED TH AT HE COULD WORK BUT NOT TO EXERT EXTREME PRESSURE ON LEFT ARM SUCH AS HEAVY LIFTING
1984 · 1 incident
December 28, 1984TN · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EMPLOYEE STATED HE FELT PAINS IN STOMACH AFTER SHOVELING OUT FROM UNDER CONVEYOR. EMPLOYEE HAD SURGERY FOR HERNIA. EXPERIENCED PAINS FROM 12/18/84 THRU 12/28/84 BEFORE SEEING A DOCTOR