Mining Incidents

Grainger County Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Vulcan Materials Company
Bean Station, Grainger County, TN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4003418

Grainger County Quarry has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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 2012
52
citations
21
significant & substantial
$13,035
proposed penalties
$12,896
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $139 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
32
inspections on record
366
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: 366 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Grainger County Quarry has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$13K
proposed penalties
$13K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
52 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-12-22.
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
2020 Q1 15 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 484 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,261 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,224 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,300 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,370 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,337 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,359 0 0 0.0
Show 25 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2018 Q1 1,485 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,288 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,286 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,302 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,735 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 7,404 8 4 1080.5
2016 Q3 7,475 1 1 133.8
2016 Q2 7,452 9 6 1207.7
2016 Q1 6,972 2 1 286.9
2015 Q4 6,485 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 5,672 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 8,316 3 3 360.8
2015 Q1 5,925 3 1 506.3
2014 Q4 8,621 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 6,427 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 6,181 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 5,076 9 2 1773.0
2013 Q4 4,677 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 4,055 2 1 493.2
2013 Q2 3,699 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 3,203 2 0 624.4
2012 Q4 3,813 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 4,489 13 2 2896.0
2012 Q2 3,421 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 2,139 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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