Mining Incidents

Portable Plant SC-8: 6 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Barnhill Contracting Company · Surface
Hamlet, N.C., Richmond County, NC  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3102280

Portable Plant SC-8 has $859 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 2013
6
citations
1
significant & substantial
$859
proposed penalties
$859
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2013
33
inspections on record
194
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: 194 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Portable Plant SC-8 has $859 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.
$859
proposed penalties
$859
current assessed
$859
paid to date
$0
outstanding
6 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-08-13.
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.
16.7%
significant & substantial
16.7%
high negligence or reckless
16.7%
reasonably likely or greater
50.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 83.3% moderate, 16.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2026-08-05
2
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-08-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2019-05-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader 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. Barnhill Contracting Company 2013 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 8
2025 6
2024 4
2023 3
2022 3
2021 3
2020 2
2019 3
2018 4
2017 2
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Plant SC-8 sits in Richmond County, North Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Richmond County, North Carolina · Population 42,818
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$43,626
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 3,137 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 2,118 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 1,769 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,000 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,039 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,419 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,150 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 894 1 0 1118.6
Show 45 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 876 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 732 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 566 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 933 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 713 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 621 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 612 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 236 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 370 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 765 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 631 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 494 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 327 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 147 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 296 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 491 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 328 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 320 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 474 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 562 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 399 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 75 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 366 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 865 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 828 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 46 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 253 1 1 3952.6
2017 Q3 405 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 879 1 0 1137.7
2017 Q1 593 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 558 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 191 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 221 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 201 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 111 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 471 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 35 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 58 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 350 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 36 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 189 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 281 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 12 2 0 166666.7

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.