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: 67 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
LOFLIN PIT has $750 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.
$750
proposed penalties
$750
current assessed
$750
paid to date
$0
outstanding
13 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2002-06-13.
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.
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: 2002-06-13, 24 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
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Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2002-06-13
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.2
1.46
0.14
Complete Load-Haul-Dump
2002-06-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cleanup Man
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2003
0
2002
2
2001
3
2000
3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
LOFLIN PIT sits in Copiah County, Mississippi, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Copiah County, Mississippi · Population 27,994
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$47,994
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
2003 Q1
0
0
0
2002 Q4
0
0
0
2002 Q2
1,812
2
0
1103.8
2002 Q1
1,663
7
0
4209.3
2001 Q4
1,737
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
1,669
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
1,776
2
1
1126.1
2001 Q1
1,440
2
0
1388.9
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2000 Q4
1,564
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
1,731
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
1,791
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
1,701
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
3 on file
2002 · 1 incident
May 10, 2002MS · Metal/Non-Metalmine manager, mine foreman, mine ownerMACHINERY
EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING A PIPE UP, HOOKED TO A CHAIN, THE CHAIN BROKE AND THE PIPE HIT THE TOP OF THE CAB AND GLASS FROM THE WINDOW OF TRACKHOE SHATTERED AND THAT'S WHAT CUT EMPLOYEE.
1998 · 1 incident
May 19, 1998MS · Metal/Non-Metalloader head operator, roscoe operatorPOWERED HAULAGE
THE OPERATOR WAS BACK DRAGGING MAIN ROAD. IT APPEARS THE BACK TIRES ON LOADER GOT TOO CLOSE TO THE BERM AND BEGAN TO GO DOWN THE CLIFF. THE OPERATOR WAS WEARING HIS SEAT BELT AND WHEN THE LOAD ER LANDED IT FELL OVER TO THE RIGHT SIDE. THE OPERATOR CLIMBED OUT AND WALKED TO THE OFFIC.E
INJURED STUCK HIS HAND BETWEEN THE GUARD AND BELT INTO THE TAIL PULLEY ON THE HOPPER IN WHICH GRAVEL IS FED INTO. HE THEN WAS PULLED UP INTO THE TAIL PULLEY. INJURED HAD BEEN TOLD NEVER TO P UT HIS IN OR AROUND THE PULLEY.