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Ione Minerals Metal/Non-Metal

US Mine Corporation · Surface

Controlled by John Bremer; Brady Barto

Ione, Amador County, CA · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 0405532

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2010–2015
Latest incident: Sep 2015

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2002

citations

significant & substantial

$3,581

proposed penalties

$3,581

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
2017 Q2	6,445	1	0	155.2
2017 Q1	5,105	3	1	587.7
2016 Q4	1,285	0	0	0.0
2016 Q3	4,927	0	0	0.0
2016 Q2	4,417	0	0	0.0
2016 Q1	3,466	1	1	288.5
2015 Q4	3,300	0	0	0.0
2015 Q3	3,829	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

2 on file

2015 · 1 incident

September 17, 2015 CA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE

Ione Minerals · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee jumped off forklift. Forklift was in neutral but still running. Employee said he failed to set the emergency brake. He reached across the forklift to grab something and accidentally hit the armature, putting the forklift into reverse and running over his foot.

2010 · 1 incident

January 12, 2010 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Ione Minerals · Struck by falling object

EE was adjusting the height of the personal fan that blows on the employee as they work sacking the clay. The fan fell on his left hand, cutting the thumb.