Mining Incidents

Searcy County Mine: 97 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Searcy County Road Department · Surface
Controlled by Searcy County-Ar
Marshall, Searcy County, AR  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0301850

Searcy County Mine has $27K 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 2001
97
citations
33
significant & substantial
$26,954
proposed penalties
$26,954
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
41
inspections on record
484
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: 484 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Searcy County Mine has $27K 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.
$27K
proposed penalties
$27K
current assessed
$27K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
96 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-07-10.
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.
34.4%
significant & substantial
4.2%
high negligence or reckless
34.4%
reasonably likely or greater
78.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 15.6% low, 80.2% moderate, 4.2% 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: 2010-04-07, 16 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (8)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2010-04-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-04-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 1.76 0.09 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-12-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-12-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-05-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-05-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-08-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-08-03 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. Gravel Mountain Quarry 2001 to 2001
  2. Searcy County Road Department 2001 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2014 3
2013 3
2012 3
2011 3
2010 3
2009 3
2008 3
2007 3
2006 3
2005 3
2004 1
2003 2
2002 2
2001 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Searcy County Mine sits in Searcy County, Arkansas, where the Census mining category is 0.9% 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.
Searcy County, Arkansas · Population 7,861
0.9%
Mining share of county employment
$41,978
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
2014 Q1 37 1 0 27027.0
2013 Q4 572 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 802 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 725 1 0 1379.3
2013 Q1 1,071 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 686 1 0 1457.7
2012 Q3 897 1 0 1114.8
2012 Q2 1,049 0 0 0.0
Show 43 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2012 Q1 1,325 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,079 1 0 926.8
2011 Q3 378 3 0 7936.5
2011 Q2 863 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1,017 1 0 983.3
2010 Q4 1,229 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 920 1 1 1087.0
2010 Q1 860 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 962 3 3 3118.5
2009 Q3 1,073 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,163 1 1 859.8
2009 Q1 1,222 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,300 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,094 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,127 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,041 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,204 1 0 830.6
2007 Q3 860 2 0 2325.6
2007 Q2 1,085 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,328 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 990 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 816 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,298 2 0 1540.8
2006 Q1 1,261 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,096 7 2 6386.9
2005 Q3 711 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 521 2 0 3838.8
2005 Q1 440 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 320 3 0 9375.0
2004 Q3 0 3 3
2004 Q2 0 0 0
2004 Q1 280 5 1 17857.1
2003 Q4 320 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 220 3 0 13636.4
2003 Q2 320 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 320 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 48 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 880 6 1 6818.2
2002 Q2 730 31 16 42465.8
2002 Q1 920 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,040 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 480 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 880 17 5 19318.2

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.