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Offerman Mineral Sand Plant Metal/Non-Metal

The Chemours Company FC LLC · Facility

Controlled by The Chemours Company

Offerman, Pierce County, GA · Active

MSHA Mine ID: 0901236

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 6
Years on record: 2015–2022
Latest incident: Jun 2022

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2015

citations

significant & substantial

$2,764

proposed penalties

$2,764

paid to date

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Quarterly safety rates

Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA

Quarter	Hours worked	Citations	S&S	Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4	18,574	0	0	0.0
2025 Q3	5,455	0	0	0.0
2025 Q2	1,515	0	0	0.0
2025 Q1	5,632	0	0	0.0
2024 Q4	3,031	0	0	0.0
2024 Q3	15,624	0	0	0.0
2024 Q1	21,354	0	0	0.0
2023 Q3	17,229	0	0	0.0

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2022 · 1 incident

June 23, 2022 GA · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Southern Ionics Minerals, LLC · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was descending stairway between 3rd and 2nd floor of the calciner bay. Employee's boot caught the next to last step causing employee to fall, striking left knee on the grating of the stair landing. The fall caused a laceration to the left knee that required 8 stitches to close.

2020 · 1 incident

September 3, 2020 GA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Southern Ionics Minerals, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Mechanic was asked to bolt pipe to sump which is a routine task. Employee was attempting to position the 6" diameter piece of rubber flex hose to valve when they felt pain in right shoulder.

2018 · 2 incidents

August 21, 2018 GA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE

Southern Ionics Minerals, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

While replacing an elevator belt on a locked out conveyor, the employee was pulling the drive belt by hand to advance the new belt. The new belt began moving on its own and 2 of the employee's fingers were caught between the pulley and belt.

August 16, 2018 GA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Southern Ionics Minerals, LLC · Fall onto or against objects

Two employees went to grease a conveyor tail pulley. As the first was greasing, the second employee was investigating the source of a loud screeching noise. As second employee was walking behind the first employee, second employee stumbled and attempted to catch self on the tail pulley guard. Left arm contacted a roller and was discharged against the conveyor frame.

2017 · 1 incident

September 8, 2017 GA · Metal/Non-Metal quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Southern Ionics Minerals, LLC · Struck by falling object

Lab Technician was opening a cabinet to get a rain coat and the cabinet fell over on the Technician's leg. Cabinet had been moved from its original position by a contractor and was not re-secured to the wall.

2015 · 1 incident

May 6, 2015 GA · Metal/Non-Metal ball/rod/pebble/hand/limestone/dry mill operator, roller operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Southern Ionics Minerals, LLC · Struck against stationary object

Following the grand opening ceremony for this facility, which has not been commissioned, an employee lacerated his left thumb while removing a banner from a wire fence located outside of the dry mill property. The employee received stitches to close the wound.