Mining Incidents

Sandy Prairie Portable Crusher Plant A Metal/Non-Metal

Mercer Fraser Co · Surface
Fortuna, Humboldt County, CA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0402764

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2001–2005
Latest incident
Sep 2005
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
98
citations
27
significant & substantial
$22,334
proposed penalties
$21,871
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 685 2 0 2919.7
2025 Q3 2,439 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 228 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,657 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 57 2 0 35087.7
2024 Q2 591 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 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

2005 · 1 incident

September 23, 2005 CA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Mercer Fraser Co · Struck against a moving object

His back began hurting while driving a dump truck.

2001 · 1 incident

September 20, 2001 CA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
Mercer Fraser Co · Struck against a moving object

WHILE OPERATING THE SCRAPER ON THE RIVER BAR, EE HIT A BUMP CAUSING INJURY TO HIS RIGHT HIP.