Mining Incidents

New Hanover County Pits Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Christopher T Wooten
Wilmington, New Hanover County, NC  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3102213

New Hanover County Pits has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2014
17
citations
1
significant & substantial
$2,183
proposed penalties
$2,183
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
28
inspections on record
187
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: 187 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

New Hanover County Pits has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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
$0
outstanding
17 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 27 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 475 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 473 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,330 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 207 1 0 4830.9
2024 Q3 7 2 0 285714.3
2024 Q2 766 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,531 0 0 0.0
Show 35 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 118 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 82 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 910 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,524 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 958 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 213 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,116 2 0 1792.1
2022 Q1 699 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 37 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 637 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 144 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 23 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 42 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,912 2 0 1046.0
2019 Q4 263 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 29 8 1 275862.1
2015 Q4 336 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 797 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,154 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 102 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 238 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 799 1 0 1251.6
2014 Q2 762 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 172 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 251 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 0 0 0
2013 Q2 504 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 495 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 854 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 227 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 25 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 105 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 70 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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