Highway 70 Pit: 12 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal
Highway 70 Pit has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2 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
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- Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2012
12
citations
5
significant & substantial
$2,696
proposed penalties
$2,694
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
3
inspections on record
30
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.Rate withheld: 30 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Highway 70 Pit has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$2
outstanding
12 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-10-09.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.41.7%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
41.7%
reasonably likely or greater
66.7%
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.
Ownership history
- Charles R Farrer 2012 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Highway 70 Pit sits in Rutherford County, Tennessee, where the Census mining category is 0.1% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.Rutherford County, Tennessee · Population 351,591
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$82,588
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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.