Matthews Pit has $14K 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
1
Years on record
2024
Latest incident
Sep 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2019
48
citations
12
significant & substantial
$13,613
proposed penalties
$11,960
paid to date
88% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,653 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
28
inspections on record
251
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: 251 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Matthews Pit has $14K 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.
$14K
proposed penalties
$14K
current assessed
$12K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
48 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-09.
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
5,752
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
4,989
4
0
801.8
2025 Q2
6,140
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
4,320
3
0
694.4
2024 Q4
4,128
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
4,790
1
1
208.8
2024 Q2
5,260
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
6,591
8
4
1213.8
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4
7,256
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
5,811
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
5,690
9
5
1581.7
2023 Q1
6,380
5
0
783.7
2022 Q4
4,380
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
5,400
2
0
370.4
2022 Q2
5,823
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
4,166
0
0
0.0
2021 Q4
4,409
3
0
680.4
2021 Q3
5,086
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
6,306
0
0
0.0
2021 Q1
3,904
1
0
256.1
2020 Q4
5,278
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
5,203
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
4,156
2
0
481.2
2020 Q1
3,088
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
4,668
3
0
642.7
2019 Q3
5,349
4
1
747.8
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2024 · 1 incident
September 6, 2024NC · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanMACHINERY
3 employees were loading pipe into loader bucket for transport, 2 ground, 1 operator. One miner was standing on pipe inside bucket. A signal was given to rotate the bucket, Miner standing on the pipe had one hand on top of bucket, when bucket rotated the miner's left hand (pointer/middle finger) were lacerated. Miner suffered non-life threatening partial amputation of finger tip.
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