Data / Mines / Georgia / Sandersville Calcine Plant
Sandersville Calcine Plant: 39 MSHA citations
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Sandersville Calcine Plant is an active kaolin and ball clay processing facility in Washington County, Georgia, operated by Imerys Clays Inc with 57 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 0900111). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 39 citations and orders there with $6,077 in proposed penalties, and 4 accident reports were filed there, with 4 injury or illness cases.
The request: Watch Sandersville Calcine Plant (MSHA mine ID 0900111) in Washington County, Georgia: each new citation and each accident report. $10 of work on sign-up, no card.
SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. It reads the mine, citation, inspection and accident files that MSHA publishes, and this page is that reading. Ask for the mines of a commodity, state or operator with the operator's headquarters, website and size added from the web, and new mines, new citations and new accident reports arrive in your sheet, CRM, Slack or agent as MSHA posts them.
- MSHA mine ID
- 0900111
- Status
- Active since May 14, 1974
- Main commodity
- Kaolin and ball clay
- Mine type
- Facility
- County
- Washington County, Georgia
- Nearest town
- Sandersville
- Operator
- Imerys Clays Inc
- Employees
- 57
- MSHA field office
- Macon GA Field Office
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 39
- Significant and substantial
- 1 (2.6%)
- Closure orders
- 0
- High negligence or reckless
- 0
- Proposed penalties
- $6,077
- Amount paid so far
- $6,077
- Inspections
- 16
- Inspector hours on site
- 240
- Citations per inspection
- 2.44 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 4
- Injury and illness cases
- 4
- Fatalities
- 0
- Latest MSHA record
- October 9, 2026
- Citations issued to contractors here
- 2 ($266 proposed)
Citations and injury cases by year
Calendar years since 2022; 2026 runs to the date of the MSHA files.
| Year | Citations and orders | Significant and substantial | Proposed penalties | Injury and illness cases |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | 0 | $665 | 2 |
| 2023 | 10 | 0 | $1,430 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 1 | $1,590 | 0 |
| 2025 | 14 | 0 | $2,392 | 1 |
| 2026 | 5 | 0 | $0 | 0 |
Standards cited most at Sandersville Calcine Plant
Sections of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations named on the citations, with the part each belongs to.
| Standard | What the part covers | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 30 CFR 56.12004 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 10 |
| 30 CFR 56.20003 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 5 |
| 30 CFR 56.12032 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 5 |
| 30 CFR 47.41 | Hazard communication | 4 |
| 30 CFR 56.12028 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 3 |
| 30 CFR 56.12018 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 2 |
| 30 CFR 56.14107 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.13021 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.14100 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.15006 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.4104 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.14112 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 46.11 | Training at sand, gravel and surface stone mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.12030 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.4201 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
Injury and illness cases at Sandersville Calcine Plant
Accident reports by degree of injury, as the operator reported them to MSHA.
| Degree | Cases |
|---|---|
| Days away from work or restricted activity | 3 |
| No lost time, or an occupational illness | 1 |
What the accident reports at Sandersville Calcine Plant describe
Accident classification, as MSHA codes the circumstances that contributed most directly.
| Classification | Reports |
|---|---|
| Powered haulage | 1 |
| Handtools (nonpowered) | 1 |
| Handling of materials | 1 |
| Slip or fall of person | 1 |
Equipment named in accident reports at Sandersville Calcine Plant
| Equipment | Reports |
|---|---|
| Conveyor | 1 |
| Hand tools (not powered) | 1 |
Other open mines in Washington County, Georgia
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deepstep Road Plant | Thiele Kaolin Company | Washington County, GA | Kaolin and ball clay | 202 | 68 |
| Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Company | Kentucky Tennessee Clay Company | Washington County, GA | Common clays | 56 | 60 |
| Main Processing Plant | Thiele Kaolin Company | Washington County, GA | Kaolin and ball clay | 347 | 41 |
| Avant Mine | Southeastern Performance Minerals, LLC | Washington County, GA | Construction sand and gravel | 38 | 22 |
| Duncan Plant | Deepstep Mineral Products LLC | Washington County, GA | Mica | 4 | 14 |
| Sandersville Plant | KaMin LLC. | Washington County, GA | Common clays | 46 | 5 |
| Avant-Ennis Mine & Mill | Thiele Kaolin Company | Washington County, GA | Common clays | 46 | 2 |
| Sandersville Land and Mines | Imerys Clays Inc | Washington County, GA | Kaolin and ball clay | 10 | 2 |
| Washington County Mine | KaMin LLC. | Washington County, GA | Common clays | 68 | 1 |
| Chambers Mine | Southeastern Performance Minerals, LLC | Washington County, GA | Construction sand and gravel | 4 | 1 |
US government work, public domain. Counts come from the MSHA files published on November 6, 2026. An open mine is one MSHA lists as Active, Intermittent, New Mine, Temporarily Idled or NonProducing; 13,673 were open that day. Citations, penalties, inspections and accident reports run from January 1, 2022. A citation is an inspector's allegation and an operator can contest it; the penalty is the amount MSHA first proposed, before any contest or settlement. An operator is the legal entity MSHA assesses, and a parent company is its controller. Mines run by sole proprietors or by individuals are counted in every total and are not named. This page uses MSHA data and is not endorsed or certified by MSHA. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.