Mining Incidents

Hardeman County Pit: 11 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Cliff Hunt
Whiteville, Hardeman County, TN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4003112

Hardeman County Pit has $940 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
1
Years on record
1997
Latest incident
Aug 1997
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
11
citations
6
significant & substantial
$940
proposed penalties
$940
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
11
inspections on record
138
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: 138 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Hardeman County Pit has $940 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.
$940
proposed penalties
$940
current assessed
$940
paid to date
$0
outstanding
11 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-06-10.
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.
54.5%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
54.5%
reasonably likely or greater
81.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% 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: 2003-09-16, 22 years ago
57%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
10
samples
7
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz74 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
Show the individual readings (10)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2003-03-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.5 0.25 2.00 Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-08-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.49 0.2 2.45 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-08-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.76 0.25 3.04 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2001-06-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.38 0.37 1.03 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-09-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-06-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.28 0.61 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-06-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2002-08-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.62 0.79 0.78 Crusher Oper/Worker
2001-06-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 0.27 0.89 Crusher Oper/Worker
2001-06-20 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. Standard Construction Company Inc 1997 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2006 0
2005 1
2004 1
2003 1
2002 1
2001 1
2000 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Hardeman County Pit sits in Hardeman County, Tennessee, 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.
Hardeman County, Tennessee · Population 25,477
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$46,173
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
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 0 0 0
2005 Q3 274 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 285 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 289 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 179 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 219 0 0 0.0
Show 16 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2003 Q4 229 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 575 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 340 6 4 17647.1
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 0 0 0
2002 Q3 519 2 1 3853.6
2002 Q2 738 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 0 0 0
2001 Q3 420 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 601 3 1 4991.7
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 663 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 16 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,862 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 239 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1997 · 1 incident

August 4, 1997 TN · Metal/Non-Metal loader head operator, roscoe operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Standard Construction Company Inc · Fall from machine

EE STATED HE WAS CLIMBING ONTO THE LOADER HE OPERATES AND HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON THE FIRST RUNG CUASING HIM TO FALL BACKWARD STRIKING GROUND.