Mining Incidents

Millen Plant Metal/Non-Metal

US Silica Company · Facility
Controlled by USS Holdings Inc
Millen, Jenkins County, GA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0901232

Millen Plant has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $246 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
2020
Latest incident
Feb 2020
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2014
24
citations
3
significant & substantial
$3,157
proposed penalties
$2,911
paid to date
92% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $246 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
19
inspections on record
325
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: 325 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Millen Plant has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $246 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$246
outstanding
24 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-03.
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 12,161 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 17,867 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 16,411 1 0 60.9
2025 Q1 17,652 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 16,209 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 20,962 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 22,693 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 23,424 0 0 0.0
Show 25 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 23,034 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 23,909 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 23,394 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 24,558 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 24,906 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 24,915 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 21,484 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 22,359 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 20,827 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 22,972 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 22,035 3 0 136.1
2021 Q1 20,875 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 15,325 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 14,891 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 12,023 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 17,676 3 0 169.7
2019 Q4 9,528 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 9,450 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 7,792 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 13,290 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 33,834 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 12,772 1 0 78.3
2015 Q1 26,205 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 28,586 16 3 559.7
2014 Q3 9,387 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2020 · 1 incident

February 23, 2020 GA · Metal/Non-Metal quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant HANDLING OF MATERIALS
US Silica Company · Contact with hot objects or substances

A polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) holding tank and pipelines were being flushed. Investigation shows that the employee was standing on a flange 2 ft. off ground to adjust an overhead valve. EE's foot slipped and turned a ground level valve that sprayed a mixture of 99% water and 1% PVA at a temperature of 210 F onto EE's left inner calf resulting in second-degree burns.

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