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Portable SC-5: 6 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Barnhill Contracting Company · Surface
Currie, Pender County, NC  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3102291

Portable SC-5 has $665 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 2015
6
citations
0
significant & substantial
$665
proposed penalties
$665
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
25
inspections on record
150
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: 150 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 SC-5 has $665 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.
$665
proposed penalties
$665
current assessed
$665
paid to date
$0
outstanding
6 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-05-06.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
16.7%
reasonably likely or greater
50.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 16.7% low, 83.3% moderate, 0.0% 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: 2019-04-10, 7 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
1
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2019-04-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.27 0.66 0.41 Backhoe 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 2014 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2023 3
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 3
2016 4
2015 2
2014 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable SC-5 sits in Pender County, North Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Pender County, North Carolina · Population 63,475
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$76,838
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
2023 Q4 190 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 493 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 919 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 643 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 107 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 811 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 603 1 0 1658.4
2022 Q1 413 0 0 0.0
Show 30 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q4 369 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 575 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 160 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 225 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 259 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 48 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 555 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 19 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,070 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,199 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,181 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 653 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 817 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 708 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,126 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 765 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 416 1 0 2403.8
2017 Q3 1,089 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 869 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 832 1 0 1201.9
2016 Q4 540 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 311 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 658 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 606 3 0 4950.5
2015 Q3 627 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 547 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 681 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 530 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 353 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.