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Union Cty: 27 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Meridian Brick LLC · Surface
Controlled by Wienerberger AG
Monroe, NC, Union County, NC  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3100144

Union Cty has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $300 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1987
Latest incident
Sep 1987
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
27
citations
6
significant & substantial
$4,575
proposed penalties
$4,275
paid to date
93% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $300 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Meridian Brick LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
31
inspections on record
281
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: 281 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Union Cty has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $300 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$300
outstanding
27 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-07-12.
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.
22.2%
significant & substantial
3.7%
high negligence or reckless
22.2%
reasonably likely or greater
37.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 3.7% low, 92.6% moderate, 3.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2013-07-15, 13 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
5
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (5)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2013-07-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2001-04-26 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.42 Scraper Operator
2001-04-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2001-04-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.72 3.13 0.23 Scraper Operator
2001-04-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
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.

Union Cty recorded 0.00 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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below 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 North Carolina, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.90 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 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2004 * 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. Boren Clay Products Company, Inc. 1950 to 2003
  2. Boren Clay Products 2003 to 2003
  3. Hanson Brick 2003 to 2005
  4. Forterra Brick, LLC 2005 to 2017
  5. Meridian Brick LLC 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2017 2
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 2
2012 2
2011 2
2010 2
2009 3
2008 5
2007 7
2006 10
2005 21
2004 15
2003 13
2002 11
2001 13
2000 13
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Union Cty sits in Union County, North Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Union County, North Carolina · Population 244,975
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$99,243
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
2017 Q3 30 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 30 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 30 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 30 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 30 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 30 0 0 0.0
Show 63 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2015 Q3 30 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 30 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 30 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 30 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 30 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 30 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 30 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 30 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 30 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 30 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 30 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 30 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 30 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 30 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 30 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 30 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 30 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 30 1 0 33333.3
2009 Q3 273 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 273 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 273 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 273 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,523 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,903 2 1 1051.0
2008 Q1 2,059 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,891 2 1 1057.6
2007 Q3 2,142 2 0 933.7
2007 Q2 2,023 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 3,532 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 3,385 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 3,561 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 3,576 4 0 1118.6
2006 Q1 3,992 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 5,633 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 4,961 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 6,649 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 8,069 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 4,718 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 7,878 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 3,327 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 4,785 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,341 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 5,411 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 3,892 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 5,084 3 1 590.1
2002 Q4 2,681 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 5,424 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 4,893 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 2,467 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 2,850 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 3,759 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 4,601 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 3,266 1 0 306.2
2000 Q4 2,426 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 6,211 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 3,835 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 2,828 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1987 · 1 incident

September 9, 1987 NC · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Boren Clay Products Company, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS RE4OVING A STEEL PIN FROM A SCRAPER APRON WITH A BALL HAMMER, A SMALL STEEL FRAGMENT FROM THE PIN PUNCTURED HIS ARM. HE WAS EXAMINED, X-RAYED AND RELEASED THE FRAGMENT WAS SO SMAL L THE DOCTOR RE2MMENDED NOT TO EXTRACT UNLESS IT CAUSED A PROBLEM.