Mining Incidents

Kitty Hollow-Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Wienerberger AG
Spring City, Rhea County, TN  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4003323

Kitty Hollow-Plant has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2015
Latest incident
Oct 2015
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
42
citations
8
significant & substantial
$6,094
proposed penalties
$5,059
paid to date
83% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,035 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
51
inspections on record
386
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: 386 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Kitty Hollow-Plant has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
41 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-02.
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 617 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 583 1 0 1715.3
2025 Q2 893 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,746 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,746 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,746 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,746 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,165 3 0 2575.1
Show 60 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,766 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,726 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,726 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,726 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,726 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,726 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,142 2 0 1751.3
2022 Q1 1,142 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,142 1 0 875.7
2021 Q3 1,157 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,157 2 0 1728.6
2020 Q4 1,157 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,157 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 943 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,564 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,250 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,532 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,573 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,442 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,378 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,470 6 2 4081.6
2018 Q2 1,600 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,210 3 1 2479.3
2017 Q4 1,160 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,500 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,130 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,080 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 980 1 0 1020.4
2016 Q3 1,120 4 2 3571.4
2016 Q2 1,090 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,132 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 637 1 0 1569.9
2015 Q3 1,028 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,004 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 973 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,002 1 0 998.0
2014 Q2 1,504 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 972 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 703 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,438 1 0 695.4
2013 Q2 930 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 963 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,042 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,355 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,122 3 1 2673.8
2012 Q1 776 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 110 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,063 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 604 1 0 1655.6
2011 Q1 403 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 437 5 1 11441.6
2010 Q3 1,066 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,919 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 650 1 1 1538.5
2009 Q4 609 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,085 2 0 1843.3
2009 Q2 682 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 826 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,349 1 0 741.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2015 · 1 incident

October 15, 2015 TN · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer STRIKING OR BUMPING
General Shale Brick Inc · Struck against stationary object

Employee was exiting the CAT dozer and bumped his knee on the equipment, specifically on the top of the blade. The employee did not want medical attention at the time of the accident but came today asking for medical treatment

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The full compliance file on Kitty Hollow-Plant

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.