Data / Mines / Tennessee / Preparation Plant
Preparation Plant: 11 MSHA citations
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Preparation Plant is a nonproducing coal (bituminous) processing facility in Marion County, Tennessee, operated by Lexington Coal Company, LLC with 2 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 4001144). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 11 citations and orders there with $1,082 in proposed penalties, and 0 accident reports were filed there, with no injury or illness cases.
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- MSHA mine ID
- 4001144
- Status
- NonProducing since August 17, 1998
- Main commodity
- Coal (bituminous)
- Mine type
- Facility
- County
- Marion County, Tennessee
- Nearest town
- Whitwell
- Operator
- Lexington Coal Company, LLC
- Parent company
- Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc
- Employees
- 2
- MSHA field office
- Barbourville KY Field Office
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 11
- Significant and substantial
- 0 (0.0%)
- Closure orders
- 4
- High negligence or reckless
- 0
- Proposed penalties
- $1,082
- Amount paid so far
- $0
- Inspections
- 17
- Inspector hours on site
- 109
- Citations per inspection
- 0.65 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 0
- Injury and illness cases
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Latest MSHA record
- August 14, 2026
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 | 1 | 0 | $133 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | $311 | 0 |
| 2026 | 8 | 0 | $638 | 0 |
Standards cited most at Preparation 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 77.216-4 | Surface coal mines, safety | 5 |
| 30 CFR 77.216-3 | Surface coal mines, safety | 3 |
| 30 CFR 77.216 | Surface coal mines, safety | 2 |
| 30 CFR 77.502 | Surface coal mines, safety | 1 |
Other open mines in Marion County, Tennessee
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Veracruz Prime Stone | Varacruz Prime Stone | Marion County, TN | Crushed, broken stone | 2 | 50 |
| Dunlap Stone Inc Jasper Quarry | Dunlap Stone Inc | Marion County, TN | Crushed, broken limestone | 10 | 28 |
| Seven Springs Fieldstone | Seven Springs Stone | Marion County, TN | Dimension sandstone | 3 | 28 |
| Bennett's Lake Quarry | Buzzi Unicem USA | Marion County, TN | Cement | 17 | 21 |
| Gizzard | CSH Inc | Marion County, TN | Construction sand and gravel | 10 | 12 |
| Mount Olive | Lopez Stone LLC | Marion County, TN | Dimension stone | 5 | 10 |
| Bear Pen Quarry B | Seven Springs Stone | Marion County, TN | Dimension sandstone | 8 | 8 |
| Monteagle Sand | Rogers Group Inc | Marion County, TN | Sand, common | 7 | 5 |
| Nickajack Quarry | Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC | Marion County, TN | Crushed, broken limestone | 18 | 4 |
| Nickajack Quarry | Kinsey Construction Co LLC | Marion County, TN | Crushed, broken limestone | 8 | 4 |
| Lane Cove Quarry #2 | Montes Stone Products, LLC | Marion County, TN | Crushed, broken sandstone | 10 | 2 |
| RGR Quarry | Thunder Air Inc. | Marion County, TN | Crushed, broken limestone | 5 | 2 |
| Flores Stone #6 | Flores Stone | Marion County, TN | Dimension sandstone | 4 | 2 |
| Thurman Mine | Buzzi Unicem USA | Marion County, TN | Common shale | 3 | 0 |
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.