Mining Incidents

Hickory Bend Metal/Non-Metal

Shorter, Macon County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103403

Hickory Bend has $4K 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 2009
24
citations
6
significant & substantial
$4,198
proposed penalties
$4,198
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
30
inspections on record
324
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: 324 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Hickory Bend has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
24 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-11-14.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2025 Q4 6,626 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 7,167 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 7,134 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 6,523 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 6,642 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 6,654 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 6,694 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 7,599 0 0 0.0
Show 55 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 6,534 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 7,882 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,195 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 5,986 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,364 1 0 733.1
2022 Q3 1,073 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 512 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 504 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 488 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 658 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 700 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 709 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 644 2 1 3105.6
2020 Q3 715 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 724 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 698 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 685 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,179 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,669 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,466 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 5,058 1 0 197.7
2018 Q3 8,977 2 0 222.8
2018 Q2 9,036 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 8,994 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 6,850 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 6,672 1 1 149.9
2017 Q2 6,668 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 7,770 1 0 128.7
2016 Q4 6,073 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 7,762 4 2 515.3
2016 Q2 8,485 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 9,096 6 2 659.6
2015 Q4 8,470 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 10,620 3 0 282.5
2015 Q2 11,702 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 11,721 1 0 85.3
2014 Q4 11,808 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 5,037 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 0 0 0
2012 Q2 0 0 0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 0 0 0
2011 Q3 0 0 0
2011 Q2 0 0 0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 0 0 0
2010 Q2 638 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 998 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 857 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 2,197 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,802 1 0 554.9
2009 Q1 3,197 1 0 312.8
2008 Q4 2,249 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,617 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.

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