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Wattsville Pit: 4 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Branscome Holding LLC
Atlantic, Accomack County, VA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4407357

Wattsville Pit has $469 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
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
4
citations
0
significant & substantial
$469
proposed penalties
$469
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Branscome Operating, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
10
inspections on record
131
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: 131 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Wattsville Pit has $469 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.
$469
proposed penalties
$469
current assessed
$469
paid to date
$0
outstanding
4 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-04-20.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
25.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% 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: 2018-06-13, 8 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2018-06-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe 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.
Ownership history
  1. Branscome Operating, LLC 2015 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 4
2022 1
2021 2
2020 1
2019 1
2018 1
2017 1
2016 4
2015 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Wattsville Pit sits in Accomack County, Virginia, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Accomack County, Virginia · Population 33,326
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$57,500
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
2026 Q2 249 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1,002 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 501 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,145 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,680 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 71 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 60 1 0 16666.7
2022 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
Show 25 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q4 39 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 252 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 63 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 22 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 8 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 4 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q3 51 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 73 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 24 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 138 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 252 2 0 7936.5
2018 Q1 415 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 355 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 209 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 335 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 347 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,495 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,624 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,934 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,830 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 725 1 0 1379.3

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.