Mining Incidents

Neal Shoals Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Stephen C Langford
Union, Union County, SC  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3800714

Neal Shoals has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $906 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
May 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
26
citations
3
significant & substantial
$3,618
proposed penalties
$2,712
paid to date
75% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $906 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
45
inspections on record
329
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: 329 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Neal Shoals has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $906 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$906
outstanding
25 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-11.
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 1,123 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,068 3 0 2809.0
2025 Q2 1,033 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,041 3 0 2881.8
2024 Q4 1,015 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,071 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,035 3 0 2898.6
2024 Q1 1,115 1 0 896.9
Show 68 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,023 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,072 3 1 2798.5
2023 Q2 1,076 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 816 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 952 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 983 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,056 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 712 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,209 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,104 1 0 905.8
2021 Q1 1,540 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,574 1 0 635.3
2020 Q3 6 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 273 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 903 1 0 1107.4
2019 Q4 863 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,105 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,231 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,156 1 1 865.1
2018 Q4 968 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,008 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,151 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,128 1 0 886.5
2017 Q4 943 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,102 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,038 1 0 963.4
2017 Q1 1,214 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,674 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,609 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,553 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,623 1 0 616.1
2015 Q4 1,589 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,595 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 289 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 56 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 23 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 6 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 7 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 4 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 5 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 4 1 0 250000.0
2013 Q2 4 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 4 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 3 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 7 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 4 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 4 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 566 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 163 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 52 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 424 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,241 1 1 805.8
2010 Q1 1,643 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 391 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 10 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 11 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 632 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,155 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 899 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 968 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,420 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,151 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,210 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,356 2 0 1474.9
2007 Q1 1,364 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,421 1 0 703.7
2006 Q3 1,439 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2024 · 1 incident

May 24, 2024 SC · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand HANDLING OF MATERIALS
McIntyre Sand Company Inc · Struck against stationary object

Employee was closing a 2" water valve. Employee's hand slipped off and hit piece of steel plate. Employee severely bruised two fingers on right hand.

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The full compliance file on Neal Shoals

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.