Mining Incidents

Great Acres: 10 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Carolina Greystone Quarries, LLC · Surface
Controlled by Estate of Ronnie Stevens
Marion, Mcdowell County, NC  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3102299

Great Acres has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $286 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 2018
10
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,178
proposed penalties
$892
paid to date
76% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $286 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
20
inspections on record
174
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: 174 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Great Acres has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $286 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$892
paid to date
$286
outstanding
9 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-12-20.
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.
22.2%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
22.2%
reasonably likely or greater
0.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 11.1% low, 88.9% 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: 2024-07-16
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-07-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe 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. Carolina Greystone Quarries, LLC 2015 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 3
2024 3
2023 3
2022 3
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
2016 2
2015 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Great Acres sits in McDowell County, North Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
McDowell County, North Carolina · Population 44,679
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$55,527
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
2026 Q2 83 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 43 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 42 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 42 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 85 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 42 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 60 0 0 0.0
Show 36 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 88 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 42 1 0 23809.5
2023 Q4 51 1 0 19607.8
2023 Q3 64 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 96 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 84 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 64 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 77 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 84 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 65 1 0 15384.6
2021 Q4 121 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 154 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 267 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 213 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 135 1 0 7407.4
2020 Q3 219 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 201 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 83 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 100 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 198 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 194 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 71 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 114 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 112 4 1 35714.3
2018 Q2 126 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 106 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 101 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 187 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 179 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 115 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 92 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 176 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 216 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 38 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 100 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 153 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.