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Talona Mountain MIne: 84 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Carmeuse Lime · Facility
Controlled by Carmeuse Holding SA
Ellijay, Gilmer County, GA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0901228

Talona Mountain MIne has $34K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2019
Latest incident
Oct 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
84
citations
13
significant & substantial
$34,303
proposed penalties
$34,301
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Carmeuse Lime's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
64
inspections on record
975
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: 975 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Talona Mountain MIne has $34K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2 outstanding across 3 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.
$34K
proposed penalties
$34K
current assessed
$34K
paid to date
$2
outstanding
83 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $14K in penalties contested before the Commission, $14K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-08-15.
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.
15.7%
significant & substantial
4.8%
high negligence or reckless
15.7%
reasonably likely or greater
54.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 4.8% low, 90.4% moderate, 3.6% high, 1.2% 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.
6 citations taken to the federal commission · 7% of citations on record
  • Settled 5 · 83%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 17%
75%
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 4 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
25%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$19K proposed, $14K 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 2024-10-15.
Contested penalties
ⓘ A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
SE 2022-0197 Settlement Paez 2024 $10K → $10K
SE 2022-0196 Prevail Moran 2023 $4K → $4K
SE 2023-0257 Settlement McCarthy 2024 $302 → $302
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘ A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘ Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2022-01-25, 4 years ago
5%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
26
samples
22
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Diesel particulate (total carbon)191 over
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz5
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (68)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2018-08-22 TC @ 160 162 160 1.01 Roof Bolter, Mounted
2022-01-25 ORGANIC CARBON 40 Scaling (mechanical)
2022-01-25 EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Truck Driver
2022-01-25 TC @ 160 58 160 0.36 Scaling (mechanical)
2022-01-25 EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Scaling (mechanical)
2022-01-25 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Scaling (mechanical)
2022-01-25 ORGANIC CARBON 30 Drill Operator, Rotary
2022-01-25 TC @ 160 45 160 0.28 Drill Operator, Rotary
2022-01-25 EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Drill Operator, Rotary
2022-01-25 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Drill Operator, Rotary
2022-01-25 ORGANIC CARBON 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-01-25 TC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-01-25 EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-01-25 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-01-25 ORGANIC CARBON 0 Truck Driver
2022-01-25 TC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Truck Driver
2022-01-25 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Truck Driver
2021-04-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.29 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-04-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-04-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2021-04-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.77 1.59 0.48 Hammer Mill Operator
2021-02-25 TC @ 160 87 160 0.54 Truck Driver
2021-02-25 EC @ 160 66 160 0.41 Truck Driver
2021-02-25 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Truck Driver
2021-02-25 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-02-25 TC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2021-02-25 EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2021-02-25 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2021-02-25 TC @ 160 56 160 0.35 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-02-25 EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-02-25 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Truck Driver
2021-02-25 EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Truck Driver
2021-02-25 TC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Truck Driver
2020-01-16 EC @ 160 47 160 0.29 Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2020-01-16 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Roof Bolter, Mounted
2020-01-16 EC @ 160 63 160 0.39 Roof Bolter, Mounted
2020-01-16 TC @ 160 87 160 0.54 Roof Bolter, Mounted
2020-01-16 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2020-01-16 TC @ 160 63 160 0.39 Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2019-02-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 Roof Bolter, Rock
2019-02-13 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 1.03 10 0.10 Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2018-10-16 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Drill Helper
2018-10-16 TC @ 160 43 160 0.27 Drill Helper
2018-10-16 EC @ 160 28 160 0.18 Drill Helper
2018-08-22 EC @ 160 17 160 0.11 Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2018-08-22 EC @ 160 112 160 0.70 Roof Bolter, Mounted
2018-08-22 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Roof Bolter, Mounted
2018-08-22 TC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2018-08-22 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2018-04-11 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Utility Man
2018-04-11 TC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2018-04-11 EC @ 160 16 160 0.10 Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2018-04-11 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2018-04-11 TC @ 160 116 160 0.73 Utility Man
2018-04-11 EC @ 160 71 160 0.44 Utility Man
2017-05-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 2.27 0.11 Truck Driver
2017-01-25 EC @ 160 107 160 0.67 Scaling (mechanical)
2017-01-25 TC @ 160 18 160 0.11 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2017-01-25 EC @ 160 18 160 0.11 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2017-01-25 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2017-01-25 TC @ 160 140 160 0.88 Scaling (mechanical)
2017-01-25 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Scaling (mechanical)
2016-07-12 EC @ 160 14 160 0.09 Truck Driver
2016-07-12 TC @ 160 19 160 0.12 Drill Helper
2016-07-12 EC @ 160 14 160 0.09 Drill Helper
2016-07-12 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Drill Helper
2016-07-12 TC @ 160 21 160 0.13 Truck Driver
2016-07-12 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Truck Driver

Area samples (mill and shop air)

Last sampled: 2022-01-25, 4 years ago
1
samples
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Area sampled
2022-01-25 TC from EC @ 160 0 UG ACTIVE MINING
2022-01-25 EC @ 160 0 UG ACTIVE MINING
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.

Talona Mountain MIne recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2022.

Injury rate, 2022
ⓘ 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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.78 and the all-US-mining average was 2.12 cases per 100 workers.
In Georgia, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.32 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
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 4.17 0.00 0.000
2018 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2017 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2016 * 0.00 0.00 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. Carmeuse Lime 2014 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2023 31
2022 41
2021 36
2020 38
2019 37
2018 16
2017 12
2016 11
2015 8
2014 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Talona Mountain MIne sits in Gilmer County, Georgia, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Gilmer County, Georgia · Population 31,976
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$72,542
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
2023 Q3 3,702 1 0 270.1
2023 Q2 10,632 5 1 470.3
2023 Q1 16,263 2 0 123.0
2022 Q4 15,238 10 2 656.3
2022 Q3 17,592 2 0 113.7
2022 Q2 17,494 11 4 628.8
2022 Q1 25,760 2 0 77.6
2021 Q4 13,789 4 0 290.1
Show 30 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q3 19,560 2 0 102.2
2021 Q2 18,712 1 0 53.4
2021 Q1 16,530 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 12,848 4 0 311.3
2020 Q3 14,169 17 1 1199.8
2020 Q2 10,972 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 16,924 2 1 118.2
2019 Q4 19,111 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 7,324 4 1 546.1
2019 Q2 18,332 6 1 327.3
2019 Q1 3,230 2 0 619.2
2018 Q4 7,661 1 0 130.5
2018 Q3 7,985 1 0 125.2
2018 Q2 6,040 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 6,729 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 5,937 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 5,374 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 5,125 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 4,855 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 4,711 1 0 212.3
2016 Q3 5,406 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 5,331 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 5,889 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 5,600 2 0 357.1
2015 Q3 3,145 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,457 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 309 1 1 3236.2
2014 Q4 10 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 10 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 2 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2019 · 1 incident

October 8, 2019 GA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Carmeuse Lime · Fall onto or against objects

EE was getting into the cab of the drill when EE tripped. EE swung an arm upward to regain balance and struck the door pin area cutting arm, requiring 7 staples. EE did not maintain 3 points of contact and did not use the hand hold provide.