Mining Incidents

Meldrim Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Meldrim Materials · Surface
Controlled by William Justin Osteen
Guyton, Effingham County, GA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0901248

Meldrim Mine has $10K 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
23
citations
10
significant & substantial
$9,539
proposed penalties
$7,936
paid to date
83% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,603 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
16
inspections on record
179
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: 179 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Meldrim Mine has $10K 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
22 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-01-28.
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 5,789 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 6,513 1 0 153.5
2025 Q2 6,390 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 7,560 1 0 132.3
2024 Q4 5,948 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 5,225 9 5 1722.5
2024 Q2 6,439 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 5,725 0 0 0.0
Show 19 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 7,020 2 0 284.9
2023 Q3 6,950 1 0 143.9
2023 Q2 7,094 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 7,147 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 5,313 2 2 376.4
2022 Q3 5,241 2 1 381.6
2022 Q2 5,240 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,800 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,106 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,106 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,106 1 1 322.0
2021 Q1 3,106 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,118 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,916 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,232 3 1 928.2
2020 Q1 2,871 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,760 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,120 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,784 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.

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