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SC-9: 3 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Barnhill Contracting Company · Surface
Kinston, Lenoir County, NC  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3102321

SC-9 has $413 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 2022
3
citations
0
significant & substantial
$413
proposed penalties
$413
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
20
inspections on record
165
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: 165 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

SC-9 has $413 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.
$413
proposed penalties
$413
current assessed
$413
paid to date
$0
outstanding
3 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-08-21.
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
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
0.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% 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: 2025-08-06
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (7)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-08-06 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.37 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-08-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2023-05-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.95 0.18 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2022-09-20 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-09-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2019-05-23 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.19 10 0.02 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-05-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 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 2018 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 4
2025 3
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
2021 3
2020 2
2019 2
2018 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

SC-9 sits in Lenoir County, North Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Lenoir County, North Carolina · Population 54,917
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$44,795
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 1,577 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1,168 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 850 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 799 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,144 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 850 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 739 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 559 1 0 1788.9
Show 25 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 219 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 246 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 362 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 498 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 555 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 285 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 506 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 727 1 0 1375.5
2022 Q2 400 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 641 1 0 1560.1
2021 Q4 813 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 464 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,177 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 638 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,368 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 559 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 959 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,160 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,596 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,640 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,615 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 563 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,372 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 788 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,217 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.