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: 178 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
H&S WHITING, INC. has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
17 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-08-18.
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: 2002-06-12, 24 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2002-06-12
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.16
10
0.02
Washer Operator
2002-06-12
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.39
10
0.04
Utility Man
2002-06-12
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.52
2.59
0.20
Bagging Operator
2002-06-12
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Washer 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.
H&S WHITING, INC. recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2003.
Injury rate, 2003
ⓘ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
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.43 cases per 100 workers.
In Georgia, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.31 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
2003 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2002 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2001 *
3.08
3.08
0.000
2000 *
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
2004
38
2003
37
2002
33
2001
33
2000
31
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
H&S WHITING, INC. sits in Whitfield County, Georgia, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Whitfield County, Georgia · Population 103,118
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$64,262
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
2004 Q3
20,589
2
1
97.1
2004 Q2
19,853
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
17,481
7
2
400.4
2003 Q4
14,373
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
18,652
0
0
0.0
2003 Q2
20,040
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
16,679
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
15,209
4
1
263.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2002 Q3
17,739
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
18,254
2
1
109.6
2002 Q1
15,696
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
12,416
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
19,043
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
17,760
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
15,777
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
12,130
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
17,398
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
15,874
1
1
63.0
2000 Q1
16,323
1
0
61.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
5 on file
2004 · 1 incident
June 7, 2004GA · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverEXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
EMPLOYEE BLED PRESSURE FROM TANKER. WENT TO UNHOOK HOSE. THERE WAS PRESSURE ON THE HOSE. HOSE BLEW OFF, HOSE CLAMPS CUT FINGERS. LACERATION TO LEFT INDEX FINGER REQUIRED 4 SUTURES.
2002 · 1 incident
August 15, 2002GA · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techEXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
DID NOT FOLLOW SAFE WORK PROCEDURES, GOT IN A HURRY. WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE TIRE FROM 2 STAGE WHEEL, WHEN HE DID NOT RELEASE AIR PRESSURE/VALVE CORE. WHEN HE REMOVED LAST BOLT HOLDING IT TOG ETHER IT EXPLODED AND STRUCK HIM IN FACE.
2001 · 1 incident
August 10, 2001GA · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techMACHINERY
EMPLOYEE WAS HOOKING CRANE TO THE WHIZZER PIPE. CRANE WAS HUNG UP. EMPLOYEE TRIED TO RELEASE THE CRANE HOOK & WHEN THE CRANE RELEASED, THE HOOK SMASHED HIS HAND BETWEEN THE CRANE HOOK & THE MI LL.
1994 · 1 incident
December 21, 1994GA · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
January 19, 1990GA · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON GRATE AROUND FEEDER & PULLING SLIDE GATE OUT OF FEEDER ON GRINDING MILL WHEN GATE PULLED LOOSE HE SLIPPED & FELL ONTO CONCRETE FLOOR & TRIED TO CATCH HIMSELF WITH HIS HANDS BROKE BOTH ARMS