Mining Incidents

Russellville Plant Metal/Non-Metal

MS Industries II, LLC · Facility
Russellville, Lawrence County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103494

Russellville Plant has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $116 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2016–2019
Latest incident
Aug 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
29
citations
1
significant & substantial
$7,525
proposed penalties
$3,958
paid to date
53% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,567 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
10
inspections on record
122
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: 122 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Russellville Plant has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $116 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$116
outstanding
28 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-05-07.
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
2020 Q1 2,449 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 3,530 1 0 283.3
2019 Q3 3,192 2 0 626.6
2019 Q2 4,524 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 2,591 2 0 771.9
2018 Q4 2,292 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,696 6 0 2225.5
2018 Q2 2,367 0 0 0.0
Show 8 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2018 Q1 1,797 9 0 5008.3
2017 Q4 2,720 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,142 1 0 466.9
2017 Q2 3,598 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,358 7 1 2968.6
2016 Q4 4,842 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 3,865 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,366 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2019 · 1 incident

August 29, 2019 AL · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
MS Industries II, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Miner was moving a piece of scrap iron and mashed/cut the tip of the 4th finger on EE's right hand.

2017 · 1 incident

January 2, 2017 AL · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
MS Industries II, LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was lifting a box of parts weighing approximately 40-50 pounds, and turned to hand the box to co-worker and felt a pop in lower back with pain centralized to lower back.

2016 · 2 incidents

August 3, 2016 AL · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
MS Industries II, LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Miner was unloading a delivery truck, and was lifting equipment for rigging purposes. Miner states that they felt a "pop" in their low back, and then felt immediate pain in the buttock area.

June 20, 2016 AL · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
MS Industries II, LLC · Struck against a moving object

Miner was operating CAT D-8 Dozer and was backing up to move some concrete and struck berm behind them. Miner was jarred when Dozer struck berm. Miner strained low back.

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The full compliance file on Russellville Plant

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.