Mining Incidents

Williamson Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Henry Williamson
Columbus, Lowndes County, MS  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2200833

Williamson Pit has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $8K 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 2020
15
citations
3
significant & substantial
$9,849
proposed penalties
$2,294
paid to date
23% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $7,555 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
17
inspections on record
110
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: 110 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Williamson Pit has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $8K 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$8K
outstanding
14 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-08-05.
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 1,848 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,367 1 0 422.5
2025 Q2 1,978 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,065 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,751 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,422 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,107 2 0 949.2
2024 Q1 1,914 0 0 0.0
Show 16 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,553 2 0 783.4
2023 Q3 1,272 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,676 1 1 596.7
2023 Q1 2,104 1 0 475.3
2022 Q4 1,631 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,226 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,231 3 0 2437.0
2022 Q1 971 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 938 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,120 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 661 2 1 3025.7
2021 Q1 966 1 0 1035.2
2020 Q4 769 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 803 2 1 2490.7
2020 Q2 535 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 389 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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The full compliance file on Williamson Pit

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.