Mining Incidents

Habersham Mill Location: 14 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Blankinship Sand Co. LLC · Surface
Controlled by Milton O Blankenship
Habersham, Habersham County, GA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0901240

Habersham Mill Location has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2016
14
citations
3
significant & substantial
$1,646
proposed penalties
$1,646
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
9
inspections on record
102
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: 102 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Habersham Mill Location 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
14 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-10-18.
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.
21.4%
significant & substantial
21.4%
high negligence or reckless
21.4%
reasonably likely or greater
7.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.1% low, 71.4% moderate, 21.4% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Blankinship Sand Co. LLC 2016 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2021 0
2020 1
2019 1
2018 2
2017 2
2016 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Habersham Mill Location sits in Habersham 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.
Habersham County, Georgia · Population 46,948
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$65,622
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
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 45 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 100 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 930 2 1 2150.5
2019 Q3 0 0 0
Show 12 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2019 Q2 200 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 325 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 350 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 270 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 260 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 265 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 300 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 350 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 400 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 15 1 0 66666.7
2016 Q4 30 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 0 8 2

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.