Mining Incidents

Three Creek Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Capron, Southampton County, VA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4407378

Three Creek Mine has $3K 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 2018
20
citations
4
significant & substantial
$3,494
proposed penalties
$3,494
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
21
inspections on record
345
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: 345 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Three Creek Mine has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
20 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-11-20.
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 3,703 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 4,580 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,735 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,991 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,350 1 0 298.5
2024 Q3 3,111 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,201 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,871 0 0 0.0
Show 26 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,973 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,901 3 0 1034.1
2023 Q2 2,934 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,640 1 0 378.8
2022 Q4 3,123 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3,264 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,258 2 1 613.9
2022 Q1 3,696 1 0 270.6
2021 Q4 5,006 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 4,381 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,349 1 0 298.6
2021 Q1 2,468 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,453 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,817 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,744 5 1 1822.2
2020 Q1 2,228 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,936 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,441 2 1 819.3
2019 Q2 2,389 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,887 3 1 1589.8
2018 Q4 1,348 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,403 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,724 1 0 580.0
2018 Q1 360 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 294 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 514 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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