Harmony Mine & Mill has $308K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 7 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
2
Total incidents
23
Years on record
1994–2019
Latest incident
Jun 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
85
citations
24
significant & substantial
$308,497
proposed penalties
$271,697
paid to date
88% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $36,800 gap.
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.
85 citations across 1,347 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Harmony Mine & Mill has $308K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 7 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.
$308K
proposed penalties
$272K
current assessed
$272K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
82 assessments are final orders; 7 contested dockets.
Of $357K in penalties contested before the Commission, $250K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2021-10-13.
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.
When citations were contested
ⓘContesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
20citations taken to the federal commission · 24% of citations on record
Settled
18 · 90%
Vacated or withdrawn
2 · 10%
75%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘCounts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 12 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
29%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$367K proposed, $260K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2021-12-01.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
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: 2020-02-04, 6 years ago
13
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg13
Show the individual readings (13)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2020-02-04
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Washer Operator
2020-02-04
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Washer Operator
2020-02-04
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2020-02-04
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Washer Operator
2015-11-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2015-11-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Washer Operator
2015-11-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Washer Operator
2015-11-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2015-11-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2010-05-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dragline Operator
2010-05-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2010-05-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2010-05-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader 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.
Harmony Mine & Mill recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2021.
Injury rate, 2021
ⓘ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 1.87 and the all-US-mining average was 2.19 cases per 100 workers.
In Mississippi, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.91 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
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
4.33
0.00
0.000
2018 *
8.20
4.10
0.000
2017 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2016 *
10.65
10.65
7.098
2015 *
7.61
7.61
0.000
2014 *
18.30
13.73
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
2022
9
2021
13
2020
15
2019
17
2018
18
2017
23
2016
22
2015
20
2014
18
2013
18
2012
14
2011
14
2010
12
2009
15
2008
13
2007
10
2006
9
2000
0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Harmony Mine & Mill sits in Copiah County, Mississippi, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Copiah County, Mississippi · Population 27,994
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$47,994
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
A track hoe was loading a haul unit with gravel to take to wash plant and the dam on a slush pond broke and covered up both the tack hoe and the haul unit with the workers in them.
EE was cleaning material from under the hopper with a shovel. EE scooped up some material and turned to toss the material off the shovel and felt a pull in EE's back.
Employee was moving culvert pipe on a trailer. They were going to unload the pipe but they were wedged together. Employee picked one end of the middle pipe up and pulled their back.
2016 · 1 incident
September 16, 2016MS · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE was helping to change the tail pulley can on hopper. EE pulled real hard on the can and it slipped and caught finger between the pulley and the metal beam.
2015 · 2 incidents
July 17, 2015MS · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
A clod had stopped up the harper and he was trying to break the clod up. He had a metal rod and was jobbing the clod and the rod slipped and he hit his hand on a metal piece on side if the harper.
June 29, 2015MS · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE said he had fallen at home over the weekend and had hurt his right knee. He was going up some steps to help work on a screen and fell hitting his left knee.
2014 · 4 incidents
December 8, 2014MS · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanOTHER
He was walking down the belt line checking it and the belt started to slip so he started walking fast back to cut the belt off and stepped in a hole turning his ankle.
August 19, 2014MS · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverHANDLING OF MATERIALS
They were trying to get the door to the clay washer hopper opened wider. LC was using a maul to hit the door. He hit the door a couple times and raise up to hit it again and noticed blood and when he looked his finger was dangling.
February 9, 2012MS · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
He was getting ready to move the Grove Crane was waiting for the air to build up.EE got on back of the grove to rip up the engine. When the air was up the operator flipped the switch to bring the outrigger in and EE's foot got caught between the body of the machine's frame and the outriggers.
2010 · 1 incident
October 26, 2010MS · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
They were helping to change teeth on the dragline. EE was watching while the foreman was trying to knock the teeth out and a piece of the tooth chipped off and hit the EE going into his right leg above his knee.
2009 · 1 incident
April 13, 2009MS · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDLING OF MATERIALS
They were putting a face plate on a pump. He had his hand on the pump and did not realize it. When they lowered the part, it mashed his left hand and cut it. Had to have stitches.
They were unloading pipe off a trailor with a end loader and he did not turn the pipe loose and it swing back and caught his had between pipe and trailor.
We are putting up a sand plant, they were taking the speed reducer off. EE had walked around the end of the plant at the same time they took the pins out. The speed reducer flipped off and hit him in the head knocking him to the ground and landed on his legs.
1997 · 3 incidents
August 25, 1997MS · Metal/Non-Metalmine manager, mine foreman, mine ownerMACHINERY