Mining Incidents

Junction City Hortense Branch Metal/Non-Metal

Junction City · Surface
Controlled by Joseph H Anderson
Kingsland, Brantley County, GA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0901148

Junction City Hortense Branch has $1K 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
3
Years on record
2002–2004
Latest incident
Jul 2004
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
14
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,381
proposed penalties
$1,381
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
7
inspections on record
96
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: 96 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Junction City Hortense Branch has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
13 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-01-06.
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
2004 Q3 10 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 15,921 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 4,300 5 2 1162.8
2003 Q4 2,341 1 0 427.2
2003 Q3 3,120 7 0 2243.6
2003 Q2 2,382 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 2,160 1 0 463.0
2002 Q4 3,240 0 0 0.0
Show 2 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2002 Q3 3,240 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 5,980 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2004 · 2 incidents

July 12, 2004 GA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Junction City · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was cleaning clay balls off top of dump hopper. He tripped on clay ball, extendad right arm to break fall, scratched elbow. Possible sprain to right wrist.

July 6, 2004 GA · Metal/Non-Metal pumper HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Junction City · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS CLEANING PIPE OF DEBRIS BY BEATING ON PIPE WITH HAMMER - HIT FINGER WITH HAMMER.

2002 · 1 incident

May 13, 2002 GA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner MACHINERY
Unknown operator · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

USING DRILL TO MAKE HOLE IN MOUNTING BRACKET AND DRILL SLIPPED OFF BRACKET WHEN BRACKET MOVED. DRILL PENETRATED HAND.

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