Mining Incidents

Smith Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Clanton, Chilton County, AL  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0103352

Smith Mine has $56K in proposed MSHA penalties and $18K 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 2006
137
citations
43
significant & substantial
$55,597
proposed penalties
$37,684
paid to date
68% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $17,913 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
49
inspections on record
606
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: 606 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Smith Mine has $56K in proposed MSHA penalties and $18K 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.
$56K
proposed penalties
$56K
current assessed
$38K
paid to date
$18K
outstanding
133 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-24.
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
2025 Q4 8,547 4 1 468.0
2025 Q3 8,791 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 6,997 7 2 1000.4
2025 Q1 7,346 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 6,145 17 7 2766.5
2024 Q3 7,390 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 7,903 8 4 1012.3
2024 Q1 8,489 4 1 471.2
Show 41 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 7,704 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 8,160 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 8,976 7 3 779.9
2023 Q1 8,908 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 8,018 8 1 997.8
2022 Q3 8,403 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 8,909 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 8,975 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 8,445 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 9,451 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 9,379 3 0 319.9
2021 Q1 8,889 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 7,437 5 1 672.3
2020 Q3 5,863 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 6,595 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 6,115 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 5,081 1 0 196.8
2019 Q3 6,130 4 1 652.5
2019 Q2 4,796 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 4,397 12 4 2729.1
2018 Q4 3,484 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,809 1 0 356.0
2018 Q2 1,700 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 82 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 4,513 5 4 1107.9
2017 Q3 1,487 6 1 4035.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q1 4,209 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 4,691 5 3 1065.9
2009 Q3 4,581 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 3,878 6 1 1547.2
2009 Q1 3,775 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 6,665 2 1 300.1
2008 Q3 8,046 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 7,451 2 0 268.4
2008 Q1 5,865 1 0 170.5
2007 Q4 6,438 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 6,909 2 2 289.5
2007 Q2 6,660 3 0 450.5
2007 Q1 7,728 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 4,715 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.

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