Mining Incidents

Northwest Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Vince Labarbera
Leland, Brunswick County, NC  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3102290

Northwest Mine has $20K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K 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
71
citations
16
significant & substantial
$20,144
proposed penalties
$18,821
paid to date
93% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,323 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
50
inspections on record
484
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: 484 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Northwest Mine has $20K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K 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.
$20K
proposed penalties
$20K
current assessed
$19K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
65 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-10-15.
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 Q3 3,247 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,893 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,898 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,169 1 0 315.6
2024 Q3 3,086 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,153 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,021 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 3,089 4 2 1294.9
Show 39 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 3,165 7 2 2211.7
2023 Q2 2,808 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3,070 2 0 651.5
2022 Q4 2,939 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3,031 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,005 1 0 332.8
2022 Q1 2,083 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,200 2 0 909.1
2021 Q3 2,350 5 1 2127.7
2021 Q2 2,795 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,690 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,847 3 1 1053.7
2020 Q3 2,955 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,211 1 0 311.4
2020 Q1 3,018 2 1 662.7
2019 Q4 3,656 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,577 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 3,704 2 0 540.0
2019 Q1 3,671 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 2,812 7 3 2489.3
2018 Q3 2,475 4 1 1616.2
2018 Q2 4,040 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 3,002 1 0 333.1
2017 Q4 2,108 2 0 948.8
2017 Q3 2,405 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,875 5 0 2666.7
2017 Q1 1,235 7 1 5668.0
2016 Q4 2,533 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,081 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,074 2 0 1862.2
2016 Q1 1,619 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 3,012 2 1 664.0
2015 Q3 1,234 2 0 1620.7
2015 Q2 2,396 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,466 1 0 682.1
2014 Q4 1,585 3 0 1892.7
2014 Q3 2,154 3 3 1392.8
2014 Q2 1,564 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 537 2 0 3724.4

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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The full compliance file on Northwest Mine

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.