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: 105 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Pollard Pit 1 has $427 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.
$427
proposed penalties
$427
current assessed
$427
paid to date
$0
outstanding
5 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-02-12.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘShares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Pollard Pit 1 recorded 8.82 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2002.
Injury rate, 2002
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
8.82
total case rate
8.82
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.17 and the all-US-mining average was 5.05 cases per 100 workers.
In Alabama, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.25 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2002 *
8.82
8.82
0.000
2001 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2000 *
19.78
9.89
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2005
0
2003
7
2002
9
2001
12
2000
10
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Pollard Pit 1 sits in Escambia County, Alabama, 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.
Escambia County, Alabama · Population 36,695
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$44,447
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
2005 Q1
0
0
0
2003 Q4
2,756
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
3,406
0
0
0.0
2003 Q2
4,203
3
1
713.8
2003 Q1
4,854
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
5,454
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
5,395
1
0
185.4
2002 Q2
5,660
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2002 Q1
6,166
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
5,323
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
6,146
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
5,825
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
4,718
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
5,904
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
5,635
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
5,155
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
3,533
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
7 on file
2002 · 1 incident
January 1, 2002AL · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanFIRE
EMPLOYEE WAS STRIKING ROLLER PIN WITH HAMMER WHEN METAL SHAVING FLEW OFF AND STRUCK RIGHT FOREARM. LACERATION OF APPROX 3 INCHES WITH METAL SHAVING IN WOUND. SHAVING WAS REMOVED AND STITCHES W ERE PUT IN PLACE.
January 20, 1998AL · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
LOADER WAS RUNNING HOT-INJURED ATTEMPTED TO LOOSEN RADIATOR CAP-CAP FLEW OUT-HOT WATER STRUCK INJURED ON RIGHT SIDE AND RIGHT ARM. INJURED JUMPED DOWN FROM LOADER LANDED ON LEFT FOOT.