Mining Incidents

Wood Farm Pit: 6 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Rex Smith Farms Inc · Surface
Hookerton, Pitt County, NC  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3101895

Wood Farm Pit has $801 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 2000
6
citations
2
significant & substantial
$801
proposed penalties
$801
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
13
inspections on record
141
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: 141 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Wood Farm Pit has $801 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.
$801
proposed penalties
$801
current assessed
$801
paid to date
$0
outstanding
6 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $243 in penalties contested before the Commission, $243 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-01-29.
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.
33.3%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
33.3%
reasonably likely or greater
66.7%
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.
When citations were contested
Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 17% of citations on record
  • Stood as issued 1 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$243 proposed, $243 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2008-03-28.
Contested penalties
A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
SE 2008-583M Dismissal Lesnick 2009 $243 → $243
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2004-11-02, 21 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
2004-11-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader 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. Rex Smith Trucking Company 1979 to 1997
  2. Rex Smith Farms Inc 1997 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2008 6
2007 7
2006 7
2005 7
2004 9
2003 8
2002 8
2001 8
2000 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Wood Farm Pit sits in Pitt County, North Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Pitt County, North Carolina · Population 172,279
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$58,851
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
2008 Q4 178 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 389 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 575 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 484 1 1 2066.1
2007 Q4 543 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 766 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 709 3 1 4231.3
2007 Q1 736 0 0 0.0
Show 28 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2006 Q4 695 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,199 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 843 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 697 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,047 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,468 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 514 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 883 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,176 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,508 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,617 1 0 618.4
2004 Q1 1,349 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,333 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,124 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,191 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,126 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,128 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,268 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,197 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 1,130 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,061 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,154 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,055 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 1,080 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 528 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 555 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 984 1 0 1016.3
2000 Q1 963 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.