Mining Incidents

Possum Grape Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Jim Otteman
Oil Trough, Independence County, AR  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0301986

Possum Grape has $29K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 1 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 2010
93
citations
31
significant & substantial
$28,711
proposed penalties
$26,868
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,843 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
33
inspections on record
406
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: 406 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Possum Grape has $29K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 1 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.
$29K
proposed penalties
$28K
current assessed
$27K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
93 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-25.
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 Q4 0 1 0
2025 Q3 735 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 946 4 0 4228.3
2020 Q2 9,580 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 15,083 2 0 132.6
2019 Q4 6,733 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 6,668 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 8,661 3 0 346.4
Show 37 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2019 Q1 7,191 1 1 139.1
2018 Q4 6,974 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 12,952 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 13,024 1 0 76.8
2018 Q1 9,443 2 0 211.8
2017 Q4 9,933 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 9,196 10 3 1087.4
2017 Q2 7,885 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 4,720 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,840 4 2 1408.5
2016 Q1 3,137 3 1 956.3
2015 Q4 1,835 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,638 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,573 2 0 777.3
2015 Q1 9,141 1 0 109.4
2014 Q4 9,232 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 9,314 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 13,030 5 1 383.7
2014 Q1 12,325 4 3 324.5
2013 Q4 7,630 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 7,744 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 8,933 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,263 2 0 1583.5
2012 Q4 0 1 0
2012 Q3 6,955 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 10,511 8 0 761.1
2012 Q1 16,354 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 17,803 6 4 337.0
2011 Q3 19,807 9 2 454.4
2011 Q2 13,959 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 15,808 5 4 316.3
2010 Q4 15,496 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 15,805 1 0 63.3
2010 Q2 14,434 11 8 762.1
2010 Q1 10,528 6 2 569.9
2009 Q4 10,899 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 2,558 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.

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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.