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Lee's Pit: 4 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Branscome Holding LLC
Williamsburg, James City County, VA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4406087

Lee's Pit has $502 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
2017
Latest incident
May 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2016
4
citations
0
significant & substantial
$502
proposed penalties
$502
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Branscome Operating, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
19
inspections on record
285
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: 285 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Lee's Pit has $502 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.
$502
proposed penalties
$502
current assessed
$502
paid to date
$0
outstanding
4 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-11-02.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
50.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 25.0% low, 75.0% 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: 2026-06-24
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
9
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg6
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (9)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-06-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-08-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-08-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2023-04-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.32 0.86 0.37 Bulldozer Operator
2023-04-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Scale Man
2023-04-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2021-04-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2021-04-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.63 Bulldozer Operator
2021-04-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.29 0.89 0.33 Truck Driver
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. Henry S Branscome Inc 1984 to 2001
  2. Branscome Operating, LLC 2001 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 8
2025 3
2024 2
2023 5
2022 5
2021 5
2020 5
2019 5
2018 5
2017 5
2016 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Lee's Pit sits in James City County, Virginia, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
James City County, Virginia · Population 80,046
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$107,046
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
2026 Q2 2,653 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 2,793 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 2,351 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,475 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,062 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,026 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 993 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,068 0 0 0.0
Show 33 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1,213 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,316 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 2,400 2 0 833.3
2023 Q3 2,547 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,444 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,883 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,228 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,415 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,419 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,072 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,386 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,081 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,643 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,454 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,567 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,444 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,041 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,484 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,450 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,332 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,583 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 2,371 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 2,367 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,680 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,351 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 2,010 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 2,029 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,507 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,737 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,116 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,198 1 0 455.0
2016 Q3 2,388 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 3,037 1 0 329.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2017 · 1 incident

May 8, 2017 VA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Branscome Operating, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Me and ee worked together to move a drum of oil into the shed we did this by tipping the drum over on edge to roll it into the shed .EE called me the next day to say that ee thought ee pulled a muscle . At that point I took ee to the medical facility to have it checked out they said that it was a back muscle sprain and released back to full duty the day 05/08/2017