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Kerns Pit: 5 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Kenneth E Steiner Jr
Terre Haute, Vigo County, IN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1202455

Kerns Pit has $571 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
2018
Latest incident
Oct 2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2016
5
citations
1
significant & substantial
$571
proposed penalties
$571
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See S&G Excavating, Inc.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
22
inspections on record
153
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: 153 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Kerns Pit has $571 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.
$571
proposed penalties
$571
current assessed
$571
paid to date
$0
outstanding
5 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2021-09-08.
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.
20.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
20.0%
reasonably likely or greater
20.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 20.0% low, 80.0% 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: 2019-05-20, 7 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
1
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2019-05-20 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 0 10 0.00 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.
Ownership history
  1. S&G Excavating, Inc. 2012 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2025 0
2024 0
2023 0
2022 0
2021 2
2020 0
2019 1
2018 3
2017 3
2016 4
2015 5
2014 5
2013 3
2012 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Kerns Pit sits in Vigo County, Indiana, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Vigo County, Indiana · Population 106,201
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$52,525
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
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 50 0 0 0.0
Show 46 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q2 0 0 0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 0 0 0
2022 Q2 0 0 0
2022 Q1 9 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 882 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 641 1 0 1560.1
2021 Q2 461 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 99 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 400 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,001 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 549 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,574 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,478 1 1 676.6
2018 Q2 1,507 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,092 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,745 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,800 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,851 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,583 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,705 2 0 1173.0
2016 Q3 2,294 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,121 1 0 471.5
2016 Q1 2,139 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 2,637 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,402 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,673 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,864 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,830 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,195 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,609 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,599 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,601 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,560 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,788 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,829 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,685 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,598 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 231 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2018 · 1 incident

October 16, 2018 IN · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
S&G Excavating, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was standing on the drag bucket to knock the drag cable out of the crow foot on the bucket. When EE tossed a drag chain out of the way it struck EE's foot causing EE to jump to the ground (1 1/2' down) and subsequently twisted knee. Mild strain of knee.