Mining Incidents

Washer Pit: 25 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Waynesboro, Wayne County, MS  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2200783

Washer Pit has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $4K in penalties since 2008.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
—
Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
25
citations
10
significant & substantial
$4,343
proposed penalties
$4,343
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date. The remaining $0 was reduced, settled, contested or is still owed.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
5
inspections on record
95
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: 95 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Washer Pit has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
25 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-02-17.
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.
40.0%
significant & substantial
4.0%
high negligence or reckless
40.0%
reasonably likely or greater
64.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 96.0% moderate, 4.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. W C Pitts Construction Co., Inc. 2008 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2011 2
2010 2
2009 2
2008 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Washer Pit sits in Wayne County, Mississippi, where the Census mining category is 2.4% 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.
Wayne County, Mississippi · Population 19,699
2.4%
Mining share of county employment
$36,791
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; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. 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
2011 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 480 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 480 5 2 10416.7
2009 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 480 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
Show 4 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2009 Q1 480 4 0 8333.3
2008 Q4 1,560 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,560 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 120 16 8 133333.3

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.