Mining Incidents

Mount Olive Metal/Non-Metal

Lopez Stone · Surface
Controlled by Sandra E Palacios
Whitwell, Marion County, TN  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4003494

Mount Olive has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1 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 2018
14
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,926
proposed penalties
$1,925
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
18
inspections on record
177
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: 177 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mount Olive has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$1
outstanding
14 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-12-18.
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 2,350 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,888 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,888 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,047 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,256 1 0 443.3
2024 Q3 2,784 3 0 1077.6
2024 Q2 3,240 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,380 0 0 0.0
Show 23 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,540 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,280 3 1 1315.8
2023 Q2 2,266 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,019 2 0 990.6
2022 Q4 2,386 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,560 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,042 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,448 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,406 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,178 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 200 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,386 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,340 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,640 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,940 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,844 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,731 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,548 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,872 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,175 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,076 1 0 929.4
2018 Q3 1,507 4 1 2654.3
2018 Q2 752 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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