Mining Incidents

Laurel Brooke Site 1: 9 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Mt.Top Stone · Surface
Controlled by Melinda L Stokes
Dayton, Rhea County, TN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4003528

Laurel Brooke Site 1 has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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 2020
9
citations
3
significant & substantial
$1,740
proposed penalties
$0
paid to date
0% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,740 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
9
inspections on record
72
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: 72 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2022-03-17.
On record since 2022.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Laurel Brooke Site 1 has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$0
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
7 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-03-17.
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.
42.9%
significant & substantial
28.6%
high negligence or reckless
42.9%
reasonably likely or greater
28.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 71.4% moderate, 28.6% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Mt.Top Stone 2019 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2022 4
2021 4
2020 5
2019 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Laurel Brooke Site 1 sits in Rhea County, Tennessee, where the Census mining category is 0.9% 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.
Rhea County, Tennessee · Population 33,299
0.9%
Mining share of county employment
$58,133
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
2022 Q3 648 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 742 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 536 4 2 7462.7
2021 Q4 582 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 690 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 778 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 440 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 630 0 0 0.0
Show 4 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2020 Q3 836 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 862 2 0 2320.2
2020 Q1 424 3 1 7075.5
2019 Q4 648 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.