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Section 27 Metal/Non-Metal

SEMCOA · Surface

Controlled by Ted Smith; Tom Reed

Little Rock, Saline County, AR  ·  Active

MSHA Mine ID: 0301979

Section 27 has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $69 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities

0

Total incidents

1

Years on record

2025

Latest incident

Mar 2025

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2010

57

citations

12

significant & substantial

$16,391

proposed penalties

$15,677

paid to date

96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $714 gap.

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Inspection activity

MSHA inspections since 2009

26

inspections on record

338

inspection hours

n/a

citations per 100 inspection hours

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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.

Rate withheld: 338 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.

Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Section 27 has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $69 outstanding across 1 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition

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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.

$16K

proposed penalties

$16K

current assessed

$16K

paid to date

$69

outstanding

56 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.

As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-22.

Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

Quarterly safety rates

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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	9,528	2	0	209.9
2025 Q3	14,648	0	0	0.0
2025 Q2	17,085	5	2	292.7
2025 Q1	14,286	0	0	0.0
2024 Q4	11,143	4	1	359.0
2024 Q3	12,697	0	0	0.0
2024 Q2	12,405	0	0	0.0
2024 Q1	10,880	0	0	0.0

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Quarter	Hours worked	Citations	S&S	Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4	11,235	5	2	445.0
2023 Q3	15,729	0	0	0.0
2023 Q2	13,073	0	0	0.0
2023 Q1	9,948	0	0	0.0
2022 Q4	8,502	3	1	352.9
2022 Q3	8,596	0	0	0.0
2022 Q2	7,231	0	0	0.0
2022 Q1	7,628	0	0	0.0
2021 Q4	8,600	0	0	0.0
2021 Q3	9,043	2	2	221.2
2021 Q2	8,009	0	0	0.0
2021 Q1	6,635	2	0	301.4
2020 Q4	9,385	0	0	0.0
2020 Q3	8,381	0	0	0.0
2020 Q2	7,553	0	0	0.0
2020 Q1	7,277	0	0	0.0
2019 Q4	7,332	2	0	272.8
2019 Q3	7,693	0	0	0.0
2019 Q2	9,181	0	0	0.0
2019 Q1	9,180	2	0	217.9
2018 Q4	8,830	0	0	0.0
2018 Q3	8,497	0	0	0.0
2018 Q2	6,441	2	0	310.5
2018 Q1	7,324	0	0	0.0
2017 Q4	6,974	0	0	0.0
2017 Q3	7,579	0	0	0.0
2017 Q2	7,897	0	0	0.0
2017 Q1	7,759	0	0	0.0
2016 Q4	7,430	3	0	403.8
2016 Q3	2,896	5	2	1726.5
2016 Q2	5,216	0	0	0.0
2016 Q1	5,680	0	0	0.0
2015 Q4	5,868	0	0	0.0
2015 Q3	5,794	0	0	0.0
2015 Q2	5,275	0	0	0.0
2015 Q1	6,554	0	0	0.0
2014 Q4	8,733	0	0	0.0
2014 Q3	9,860	4	0	405.7
2014 Q2	9,100	0	0	0.0
2014 Q1	9,062	2	0	220.7
2013 Q3	7,826	0	0	0.0
2013 Q2	7,790	0	0	0.0
2013 Q1	6,224	0	0	0.0
2012 Q4	5,617	5	1	890.2
2012 Q3	5,682	0	0	0.0
2012 Q2	6,591	0	0	0.0
2012 Q1	6,150	0	0	0.0
2011 Q4	5,455	1	0	183.3
2011 Q3	5,528	0	0	0.0
2011 Q2	3,933	0	0	0.0
2011 Q1	3,762	0	0	0.0
2010 Q4	3,623	2	0	552.0
2010 Q3	3,525	0	0	0.0
2010 Q2	3,965	0	0	0.0
2010 Q1	3,544	5	1	1410.8
2009 Q4	3,024	0	0	0.0
2009 Q3	2,675	0	0	0.0
2009 Q2	2,400	0	0	0.0
2009 Q1	1,680	0	0	0.0
2008 Q4	2,100	0	0	0.0

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2025 · 1 incident

March 17, 2025 AR · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer OTHER

SEMCOA · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The incident is currently believed to be a health related matter.

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