Mining Incidents

Yavapai Apache Sand & Rock Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Yavapai-Apache Nation
Campe Verde, Yavapai County, AZ  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0202826

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Years on record
2000–2025
Latest incident
Sep 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
65
citations
15
significant & substantial
$9,009
proposed penalties
$9,009
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 7,873 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 8,136 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 9,716 1 0 102.9
2025 Q1 7,730 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 8,624 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 8,760 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 9,380 1 1 106.6
2024 Q1 8,359 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

7 on file

2025 · 1 incident

September 17, 2025 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Yavapai Apache Sand & Rock · Struck against a moving object

Employee was operating 631K Scraper. The Employee was going down the hill from the new strip and hit a dip which caused EE to lose EE's footing from the brake peddle which made the scraper accelerate speed going down the hill; when EE reached the bottom of the hill EE was able to stop the scraper but said EE had lower back pain.

2018 · 1 incident

2014 · 1 incident

February 14, 2014 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Yavapai Apache Sand & Rock · Struck against a moving object

637G scraper tripping over burden next to 11' highwall, working to close to berm, over burden was soft clean dirt. Scraper slid slowly over edge sideways and slowly turned over. EE was ok but he was taken to urgent care to be check out. EE knew better than to operate equipment that close to berm, we have had many safety meetings about this. Tire tracks where way to close.

2010 · 1 incident

2005 · 1 incident

May 25, 2005 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Yavapai Apache Sand & Rock · Struck against a moving object

Employee operating scraper - hauling to crusher. Ran off the haul road onto rough embarkment causing him to be tossed from side to side in the cab.

2003 · 1 incident

2000 · 1 incident