Mining Incidents

Thurman Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Buzzi Unicem USA · Surface
Controlled by Buzzi S p A
Chattanooga, Marion County, TN  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4003481

Thurman Mine has $2K 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
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
12
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,501
proposed penalties
$1,501
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
25
inspections on record
237
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: 237 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Thurman Mine has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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
12 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-04-29.
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 711 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 683 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 604 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 531 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 584 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 479 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 584 1 0 1712.3
2024 Q1 475 0 0 0.0
Show 26 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 599 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 632 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 578 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 398 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 650 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 632 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 490 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 443 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 573 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 593 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 551 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 560 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 584 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 373 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 431 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 416 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 615 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 541 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 329 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 371 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 427 1 0 2341.9
2017 Q3 56 10 2 178571.4

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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