Mining Incidents

Owens Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Perkins Cinders Inc · Surface
Controlled by E Kay Perkins
Navajo, Navajo County, AZ  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0201092

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2005–2015
Latest incident
Oct 2015
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
127
citations
40
significant & substantial
$33,126
proposed penalties
$28,637
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 6,716 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 7,279 3 1 412.1
2025 Q2 6,695 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 7,114 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 5,675 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 7,142 3 1 420.1
2024 Q2 9,467 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 7,438 1 0 134.4
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2015 · 1 incident

October 7, 2015 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Perkins Cinders Inc · Struck by falling object

Miner cutting metal plate and it fell on his foot

2006 · 1 incident

September 21, 2006 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Perkins Cinders Inc · Struck by flying object

Employee building up seal area on cone and using a grinder. A piece of steel flew into his right eye.

2005 · 1 incident

March 18, 2005 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Perkins Cinders Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE UNLOADING A STEEL BAR & THE BAR FELL ON HIS FOOT