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Vulture Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Vulture Peak Holding LLC · Surface

Controlled by Jon Shipley

Wickenburg, Maricopa County, AZ · Intermittent

MSHA Mine ID: 0203344

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2016–2020
Latest incident: Aug 2020

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2015

citations

significant & substantial

$11,196

proposed penalties

$5,011

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	Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4	145	0	0.0
2025 Q2	110	0	0.0
2025 Q1	100	0	0.0
2024 Q4	100	3	30000.0
2024 Q3	200	0	0.0
2024 Q2	866	0	0.0
2024 Q1	926	1	1079.9
2023 Q4	920	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

2 on file

2020 · 1 incident

August 2, 2020 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal ball/rod/pebble/hand/limestone/dry mill operator, roller operator POWERED HAULAGE

Vulture Peak Holding LLC · Struck against a moving object

Employee left their post because they said they were tired and wanted to get some fresh air, so they took a quad and went for a ride in an area that is of no business of a mill worker, at dark, and drove into a test hole with the quad.

2016 · 1 incident

March 18, 2016 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Vulture Peak Gold, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was backing down off of the excavator track to the step with right leg and when ee placed left foot on the ground and removed hand from rail to move right foot from the step ee left knee twisted.