Mining Incidents

Pisgah Metal/Non-Metal

Blue Ridge Mountain Stone, LLC · Surface
Controlled by Kenneth Lee Pearson
marion, Mcdowell County, NC  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3102314

MSHA record for Pisgah (mine ID 3102314). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
13
inspections on record
107
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: 107 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2024-07-11
2
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-07-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2018-10-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Blue Ridge Mountain Stone, LLC 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 3
2024 3
2023 3
2022 3
2021 3
2020 3
2019 3
2018 3
2017 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Pisgah sits in McDowell County, North Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.5% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
McDowell County, North Carolina · Population 44,679
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$55,527
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
2026 Q2 354 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 326 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 342 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 272 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 252 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 142 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 148 0 0 0.0
Show 28 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 164 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 290 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 188 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 248 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 268 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 268 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 254 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 294 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 268 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 214 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 244 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 148 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 87 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 88 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 124 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 86 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 70 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 134 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 128 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 52 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 166 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 328 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 360 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 248 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 266 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 324 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 52 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 46 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.