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Shelter Creek Lime and Stone: 81 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Burgaw, NC, Pender County, NC  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3102242

Shelter Creek Lime and Stone has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties and $897 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2019
Latest incident
Aug 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
81
citations
25
significant & substantial
$22,388
proposed penalties
$19,619
paid to date
88% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,769 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Shelter Creek Capital, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
50
inspections on record
687
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: 687 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘ A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
2
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2011-03-09.
On record since 2011.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Shelter Creek Lime and Stone has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties and $897 outstanding across 2 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.
$22K
proposed penalties
$21K
current assessed
$20K
paid to date
$897
outstanding
79 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $6K in penalties contested before the Commission, $5K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-30.
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.
31.6%
significant & substantial
11.4%
high negligence or reckless
31.6%
reasonably likely or greater
64.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 2.5% low, 86.1% moderate, 11.4% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
7 citations taken to the federal commission · 9% of citations on record
  • Settled 7 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 3 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
29%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$6K proposed, $5K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2012-02-14.
Contested penalties
ⓘ A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
SE 2012-251M Settlement Bulluck 2013 $6K → $4K
SE 2012-219M Settlement Bulluck 2013 $972 → $830
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2025-07-29
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
21
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg14
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz5
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (21)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-07-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-07-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2025-07-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2023-04-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2023-04-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2023-04-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.29 1.01 0.29 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-04-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-04-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 0.58 0.28 Crusher Oper/Worker
2019-07-31 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2019-07-31 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2019-07-31 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Mechanic
2019-07-31 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2016-04-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.31 0.97 0.32 Mechanic
2016-04-26 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.18 Utility Man
2016-04-26 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2014-02-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Oiler, Greaser
2009-05-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2009-05-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2009-05-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 0.54 0.33 Backhoe Operator
2009-05-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2009-05-21 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.

Shelter Creek Lime and Stone recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2017.

Injury rate, 2017
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.99 and the all-US-mining average was 2.48 cases per 100 workers.
In North Carolina, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.36 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2017 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2014 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2013 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2012 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2011 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Shelter Creek Quarry, LLC 2009 to 2011
  2. Shelter Creek Capital, LLC 2011 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 8
2025 7
2024 6
2023 6
2022 6
2021 6
2020 6
2019 8
2018 9
2017 10
2016 9
2015 9
2014 13
2013 15
2012 25
2011 26
2010 8
2009 11
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Shelter Creek Lime and Stone sits in Pender County, North Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Pender County, North Carolina · Population 63,475
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$76,838
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 4,048 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 3,807 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 3,762 2 0 531.6
2025 Q3 3,884 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,593 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,018 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,757 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,955 0 0 0.0
Show 62 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 3,747 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,763 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 3,802 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,736 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,710 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3,336 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 3,066 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3,300 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,724 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,655 2 0 753.3
2021 Q4 2,998 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,003 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,066 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,844 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,209 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,667 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,627 1 0 380.7
2020 Q1 2,868 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 3,753 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,987 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 4,355 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 4,417 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 4,336 2 0 461.3
2018 Q3 4,886 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 5,047 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 4,990 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 5,282 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 5,959 2 1 335.6
2017 Q2 6,172 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 5,880 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 5,881 3 0 510.1
2016 Q3 5,463 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 4,529 1 0 220.8
2016 Q1 4,109 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 4,861 1 0 205.7
2015 Q3 4,551 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 4,510 1 0 221.7
2015 Q1 5,304 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 5,784 2 1 345.8
2014 Q3 6,601 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 7,306 1 0 136.9
2014 Q1 8,513 1 0 117.5
2013 Q4 9,049 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 9,917 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 6,509 2 1 307.3
2013 Q1 9,353 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 11,476 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 16,664 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 15,312 3 1 195.9
2012 Q1 15,674 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 15,613 5 1 320.2
2011 Q3 15,521 18 11 1159.7
2011 Q2 16,366 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 11,823 8 2 676.6
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 6,106 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 5,075 1 0 197.0
2010 Q1 5,477 5 2 912.9
2009 Q4 5,799 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 5,036 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 5,012 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 3,647 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2019 · 2 incidents

August 12, 2019 NC · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Shelter Creek Capital, LLC · Struck against a moving object

Miner informed supervisor that they had bumped their head on the windshield of the bulldozer and cracked the glass when the dozer lunged forward as a result of the unit going into park and the seat belt not holding. The individual stated that they had a small bump on their head but was not hurt.

July 12, 2019 NC · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec POWERED HAULAGE
Shelter Creek Capital, LLC · Struck against a moving object

On 8/15/2019 miner told manager that their back had been hurt during the week of 7/12/19 when the off road truck they were operating hit a hole and they were thrown against the armrest. Injured had told supervisor on or about 7/8/19 that they had hurt back away from work and that they could not run a off-road truck because it hurt their back after that.