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Sylacauga Plant: 27 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Sylacauga, Talladega County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103187

Sylacauga Plant has $7K 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
5
Years on record
2002–2005
Latest incident
Jan 2005
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
27
citations
8
significant & substantial
$6,572
proposed penalties
$6,572
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Martin Marietta Materials Incorporated's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
20
inspections on record
330
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: 330 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Sylacauga Plant has $7K 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
27 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2006-05-18.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘ Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
29.6%
significant & substantial
18.5%
high negligence or reckless
29.6%
reasonably likely or greater
48.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 81.5% moderate, 18.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
2 citations taken to the federal commission · 7% of citations on record
  • Settled 2 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
50%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$2K proposed, $975 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2005-09-27.

Sylacauga Plant recorded 9.39 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2005.

Injury rate, 2005
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
9.39
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.21 cases per 100 workers.
In Alabama, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.17 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2005 * 9.39 0.00 0.000
2004 * 9.56 0.00 0.000
2003 * 18.49 18.49 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Martin Marietta Materials Incorporated 2000 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2007 2
2006 8
2005 8
2004 8
2003 10
2002 8
2001 8
2000 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Sylacauga Plant sits in Talladega County, Alabama, where the Census mining category is 0.6% of county employment.

Local economic context
ⓘ County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Talladega County, Alabama · Population 81,170
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$56,249
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
2007 Q1 977 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 3,066 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 4,678 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 4,352 2 0 459.6
2006 Q1 3,605 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 5,208 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 5,727 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 5,145 0 0 0.0
Show 19 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2005 Q1 5,211 5 4 959.5
2004 Q4 5,372 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 6,039 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 5,093 2 0 392.7
2004 Q1 4,420 1 0 226.2
2003 Q4 5,984 6 0 1002.7
2003 Q3 5,928 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 5,387 2 0 371.3
2003 Q1 4,336 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 4,108 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 4,782 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 5,309 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 4,173 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 4,557 1 1 219.4
2001 Q3 4,999 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 4,358 3 1 688.4
2001 Q1 4,434 3 1 676.6
2000 Q4 5,124 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 5,284 1 0 189.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2005 · 1 incident

January 3, 2005 AL · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Materials Incorporated · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE WAS LIFTING ONE END OF A 5 FOOT BEAM TO REMOVE A LIFTING CHAIN WHEN HE FELT A BURNING SENSATION AND A PULL IN LEFT SHOULDER. AGGRAVATION INCREASED OVERNIGHT AND REPORTED AT START OF NEXT SHIFT.

2004 · 1 incident

September 15, 2004 AL · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Martin Marietta Materials Incorporated · Struck by flying object

Employee was washing tail pulley of belt. He was positioned below the jaw crusher below and protective deck. A rock virbrated through an opening below the protective deck, falling and hitting the employee.

2003 · 2 incidents

July 1, 2003 AL · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner MACHINERY
Martin Marietta Materials Incorporated · Struck against a moving object

EE WAS ON A DOZER BACKING UP A STOCKPILE AND RANOVER A LARGE ROCK CAUSING THE DOZER TO RISE UP AND COMING DOWN ON TRACKS. HE HURT BACK FROM THE JARRING OF THE DOZER.

June 5, 2003 AL · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Materials Incorporated · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING AT FEEDPAN WITH A BAR AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS BACK WHEN HE WAS REINSTALLING THE GUARD.

2002 · 1 incident

September 18, 2002 AL · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner MACHINERY
Martin Marietta Materials Incorporated · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS HIT ON THE HEAD WITH A ROCK (20-25 LB) THAT WAS SLUNG OFF THE CRUSHER SCREEN. HE RECEIVED A SLIGHT CONCUSSION & A LACERATION TO THE FOREHEAD THAT REQUIRED 10 STITCHES.