Steel Gray Metal/Non-Metal
Buechel Stone Corp.
· Surface
Controlled by
Shaun Buechel; Dominique Von Wald; Michael Buechel
Spruce Pine,
Mitchell County,
NC
·
Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3102315
Steel Gray has $1K 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
- 0
- Years on record
- —
- Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2018
7
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,022
proposed penalties
$1,022
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
15
inspections on record
127
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: 127 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Steel Gray has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
7 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-09-04.
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 Q3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2025 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2025 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024 Q2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2024 Q1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2023 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2023 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2023 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2022 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2022 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2022 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2022 Q1 | 152 | 1 | 0 | 6578.9 |
| 2021 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2021 Q3 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q2 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q1 | 152 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q4 | 292 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q3 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q2 | 139 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q1 | 135 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q4 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q3 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q2 | 158 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q1 | 290 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q3 | 432 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q2 | 650 | 3 | 0 | 4615.4 |
| 2018 Q1 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q4 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q3 | 72 | 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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