MACON COUNTY MINES has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
Watch this mine
Email me when a new MSHA incident is filed at MACON COUNTY MINES.
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Years on record
1989–2016
Latest incident
Nov 2016
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
44
citations
4
significant & substantial
$4,898
proposed penalties
$4,898
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
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: 810 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
MACON COUNTY MINES has $5K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
44 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $217 in penalties contested before the Commission, $217 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-09-08.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘContesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
2citations taken to the federal commission · 5% of citations on record
Settled
1 · 50%
Stood as issued
1 · 50%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$217 proposed, $217 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2010-01-05.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
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
12
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg11
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (12)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2026-06-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2026-06-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Complete Load-Haul-Dump
2026-06-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2026-06-24
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Complete Load-Haul-Dump
2009-10-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Scraper Operator
2009-10-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Oiler, Greaser
2009-10-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2009-10-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Scraper Operator
2003-12-16
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.51
10
0.05
Backhoe Operator
2003-12-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2000-11-14
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2000-11-14
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Road Grader 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.
MACON COUNTY MINES recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Georgia, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.20 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2025 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2018 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2017 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
19
2025
18
2024
17
2023
18
2022
19
2021
20
2020
20
2019
21
2018
22
2017
22
2016
22
2015
26
2014
24
2013
16
2012
18
2011
14
2010
11
2009
13
2008
14
2007
13
2006
15
2005
12
2004
15
2003
14
2002
14
2001
15
2000
16
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
MACON COUNTY MINES sits in Macon County, Georgia, 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.
Macon County, Georgia · Population 11,953
0.9%
Mining share of county employment
$37,177
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
8,079
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
8,057
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
11,034
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
8,977
1
0
111.4
2025 Q2
8,632
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
7,203
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
7,800
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
8,825
1
0
113.3
Show 97 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q1
9,718
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
8,961
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
8,840
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
9,370
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
9,075
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
9,107
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
9,097
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
8,974
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
12,889
0
0
0.0
2021 Q4
10,293
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
9,796
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
9,096
0
0
0.0
2021 Q1
9,223
0
0
0.0
2020 Q4
8,412
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
9,587
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
8,943
0
0
0.0
2020 Q1
11,669
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
8,843
0
0
0.0
2019 Q3
10,194
0
0
0.0
2019 Q2
10,174
0
0
0.0
2019 Q1
10,897
0
0
0.0
2018 Q4
9,407
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
11,062
0
0
0.0
2018 Q2
10,665
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
10,996
0
0
0.0
2017 Q4
10,551
0
0
0.0
2017 Q3
12,198
0
0
0.0
2017 Q2
11,758
0
0
0.0
2017 Q1
12,289
1
0
81.4
2016 Q4
10,440
0
0
0.0
2016 Q3
11,360
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
10,205
0
0
0.0
2016 Q1
10,210
0
0
0.0
2015 Q4
12,259
0
0
0.0
2015 Q3
10,233
0
0
0.0
2015 Q2
13,460
0
0
0.0
2015 Q1
13,570
1
0
73.7
2014 Q4
12,474
0
0
0.0
2014 Q3
13,741
0
0
0.0
2014 Q2
11,449
0
0
0.0
2014 Q1
9,676
0
0
0.0
2013 Q4
8,038
1
0
124.4
2013 Q3
7,504
0
0
0.0
2013 Q2
6,896
1
0
145.0
2013 Q1
6,625
0
0
0.0
2012 Q4
6,264
0
0
0.0
2012 Q3
7,809
0
0
0.0
2012 Q2
8,198
1
0
122.0
2012 Q1
7,835
0
0
0.0
2011 Q4
8,096
1
0
123.5
2011 Q3
7,326
0
0
0.0
2011 Q2
5,631
0
0
0.0
2011 Q1
4,894
0
0
0.0
2010 Q4
4,817
1
0
207.6
2010 Q3
5,085
1
1
196.7
2010 Q2
5,272
0
0
0.0
2010 Q1
6,284
0
0
0.0
2009 Q4
6,919
1
0
144.5
2009 Q3
6,470
0
0
0.0
2009 Q2
4,941
0
0
0.0
2009 Q1
5,436
0
0
0.0
2008 Q4
5,939
0
0
0.0
2008 Q3
6,905
0
0
0.0
2008 Q2
6,639
0
0
0.0
2008 Q1
6,891
1
0
145.1
2007 Q4
6,280
0
0
0.0
2007 Q3
6,518
2
0
306.8
2007 Q2
5,842
0
0
0.0
2007 Q1
6,227
1
0
160.6
2006 Q4
6,267
0
0
0.0
2006 Q3
7,146
0
0
0.0
2006 Q2
7,035
0
0
0.0
2006 Q1
5,807
0
0
0.0
2005 Q4
4,670
0
0
0.0
2005 Q3
5,393
2
0
370.9
2005 Q2
5,919
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
5,512
0
0
0.0
2004 Q4
6,274
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
6,553
2
0
305.2
2004 Q2
6,706
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
6,639
0
0
0.0
2003 Q4
6,229
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
6,516
0
0
0.0
2003 Q2
6,593
1
0
151.7
2003 Q1
6,233
1
0
160.4
2002 Q4
6,375
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
6,642
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
6,452
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
6,320
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
6,222
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
6,584
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
7,223
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
7,380
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
6,804
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
8,440
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
7,391
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
6,747
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
10 on file
2016 · 1 incident
November 10, 2016GA · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Driver was removing a lump of material from tailgate of dump truck. Driver instructed a 2nd driver to close the latch. Driver#1 placed hand on the pin where the clasp locks the tailgate. Middle finger on right hand was pinched inside the clasp.
2015 · 1 incident
February 9, 2015GA · Metal/Non-Metalcrane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, riggerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OUT A LARGE SCALE SYSTEM. HE WAS LIFTING BUCKETS OF DIRT AND MUD OUT OF THE SCALE PIT. THIS LIFTING MOVEMENT CAUSED A HERNIA. EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATED ON JULY 6TH, 2001.
1994 · 2 incidents
August 5, 1994GA · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
INJURED BROOKINS WAS HELPING TO UNLOAD BAUXITE RAIL ROAD CARS. INJURED WAS OPENING AND CLOSING BOTTOM CAR DOORS WITH A STEEL BAR AS HE WAS USING STEEL BAR-IT SLIPPED AND HE FELL TO THE GROUND
May 3, 1994GA · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
INJURED WAS FEEDING HAY INTO A MULCHIN GMACHINE. HE PICKED UP SOME HAY WHICH HAD PRICKY PEARS IN IT AND GOT A STICKER IN HIS RIGHT HAND, MIDDLE FINGE.R IT COULD NOT BE SEEN BUT THE AREA GOT INFECTED.
1993 · 1 incident
December 28, 1993GA · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerMACHINERY
EMPLOYEE WAS PRIMING A DIESEL PUMP-ONE FOOT WAS ON PUMP FRAME AND HE WAS PULLING AND PUSHING PRIMER HANDLE-HANDLE BROKE AND EMPLOYEE FELL BACKWARDS AND DOWN A 4'BANK.
1992 · 3 incidents
September 22, 1992GA · Metal/Non-Metalcrane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, riggerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE NOTICED WATER LEAKING FROM MOTOR GRADER RADIATOR CAP. HE SUT EQUIPMENT OFF. HE LOOSENED CAP TO RELIEVE THE PRESSURE, THEN REMOVED THE CAP. WATER CAME OUT AND BURNED HIS ARM.
March 9, 1992GA · Metal/Non-Metalcoal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shovelerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
WATER PUMP MOUNTED ON TTRAILER PUMP BEING MOVED FROMM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER BY FARM TRACTOR I NAME WAS UNHOOKING THE PUMP FROM THE TRACTOR PULLING THE PIN TONGUE RAISED UP & CAUGHT HIS FINGER BETWEEN IT & THE DRAW BAR OF THE TRACTOR
1989 · 1 incident
December 1, 1989GA · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDLING OF MATERIALS