Mining Incidents

Southern Pines Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Sam Viola
Portsmouth, Chesapeake (City) County, VA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4407346

Southern Pines Pit has $20K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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
2021
Latest incident
Mar 2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
40
citations
15
significant & substantial
$19,596
proposed penalties
$17,196
paid to date
88% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,400 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
20
inspections on record
421
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: 421 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Southern Pines Pit has $20K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$20K
proposed penalties
$17K
current assessed
$17K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
40 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-01.
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 549 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 569 1 0 1757.5
2025 Q2 648 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 392 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 797 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 347 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 534 3 0 5618.0
2024 Q1 98 1 0 10204.1
Show 34 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 479 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 461 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 465 6 2 12903.2
2023 Q1 467 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 377 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 508 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 538 4 2 7434.9
2022 Q1 427 2 0 4683.8
2021 Q4 488 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 549 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 897 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 653 4 4 6125.6
2020 Q4 652 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 605 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 580 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,072 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,112 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 923 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 634 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 426 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 543 6 2 11049.7
2018 Q3 973 3 1 3083.2
2018 Q2 633 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 529 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 161 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 66 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 228 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 117 2 1 17094.0
2016 Q3 146 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 48 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 36 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 41 6 3 146341.5
2015 Q3 21 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2021 · 1 incident

March 18, 2021 VA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Vico Construction Corporation · Struck against a moving object

Employee operating a John Deere bulldozer drove over a raised berm, landing in a 10'-15' non-sloped ditch. EE was unrestrained at the time of the accident resulting in a fractured left foot and right shoulder contusion.

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