Mining Incidents

Sword Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Lyle Bushman
Milledgeville, Carroll County, IL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1103091

Sword has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2001
27
citations
4
significant & substantial
$2,215
proposed penalties
$2,215
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
32
inspections on record
309
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: 309 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Sword has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
27 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-04-17.
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
2022 Q4 806 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 965 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 998 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 902 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,092 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,016 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 9 0 0 0.0
Show 80 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2020 Q4 1,347 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,716 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,511 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 184 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,040 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,409 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 793 1 0 1261.0
2019 Q1 729 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 676 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,028 1 0 972.8
2018 Q2 949 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 196 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 928 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,004 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,014 2 1 1972.4
2017 Q1 208 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 953 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,189 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,093 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 380 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 975 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,024 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 996 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 320 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 951 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,101 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,089 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 495 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,105 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,014 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,157 1 0 864.3
2013 Q1 515 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,293 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,404 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,604 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 737 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,032 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,558 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,158 5 0 4317.8
2011 Q1 855 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 141 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 397 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 554 1 0 1805.1
2010 Q1 230 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 693 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 896 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 913 1 0 1095.3
2009 Q1 799 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,412 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,642 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,837 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 666 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,243 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,616 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,502 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 466 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,101 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,563 1 0 639.8
2006 Q2 1,420 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 714 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,224 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,680 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,567 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 740 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,586 3 0 1891.6
2004 Q3 1,821 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,691 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 502 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,449 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,591 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,707 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 430 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,290 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 578 1 0 1730.1
2002 Q2 1,540 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 445 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,480 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,503 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,668 10 3 5995.2
2001 Q1 365 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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The full compliance file on Sword

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.