Soak Creek Metal/Non-Metal
Cook Stone Company LLC
· Surface
Controlled by
James F Cook Sr; James F Cook Jr
Spring City,
Bledsoe County,
TN
·
Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4003459
Soak Creek has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $5K outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 0
- Years on record
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- Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2018
29
citations
14
significant & substantial
$8,318
proposed penalties
$3,490
paid to date
42% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,828 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
27
inspections on record
322
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: 322 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Soak Creek has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $5K 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.$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$5K
outstanding
22 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-21.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
See also
the operator's enforcement record
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 | 1,883 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q3 | 2,656 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q2 | 1,080 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q1 | 480 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q4 | 2,038 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q3 | 549 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q2 | 1,107 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q1 | 523 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Q4 | 1,141 | 6 | 5 | 5258.5 |
| 2023 Q3 | 1,784 | 6 | 5 | 3363.2 |
| 2023 Q2 | 1,341 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q1 | 724 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q4 | 1,159 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q3 | 1,188 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q2 | 1,323 | 2 | 0 | 1511.7 |
| 2022 Q1 | 900 | 3 | 2 | 3333.3 |
| 2021 Q4 | 2,007 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q3 | 2,322 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q2 | 2,103 | 1 | 1 | 475.5 |
| 2021 Q1 | 586 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q4 | 1,198 | 1 | 0 | 834.7 |
| 2020 Q3 | 684 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q2 | 811 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q1 | 1,197 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2019 Q3 | 549 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q2 | 702 | 2 | 0 | 2849.0 |
| 2019 Q1 | 418 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q4 | 412 | 3 | 0 | 7281.6 |
| 2018 Q3 | 1,252 | 3 | 1 | 2396.2 |
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.
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The full compliance file on Soak Creek
A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.