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Ida-Ore: 80 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Ida-Ore Mining, LLC · Surface
Jerome, Jerome County, ID  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1002264

Ida-Ore has had no fatalities among 1 reportable incident since 2025. MSHA has proposed $163K in penalties since 2021, with $124K outstanding.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2025
Latest incident
Jan 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
80
citations
19
significant & substantial
$163,267
proposed penalties
$39,628
paid to date
24% of proposed penalties paid to date. The remaining $123,639 was reduced, settled, contested or is still owed.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Ida-Ore Mining, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
23
inspections on record
370
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘ This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 370 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Ida-Ore has $163K in proposed MSHA penalties and $124K outstanding across 0 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
ⓘ Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$163K
proposed penalties
$163K
current assessed
$40K
paid to date
$124K
outstanding
80 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-01-13.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘ Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
23.8%
significant & substantial
21.2%
high negligence or reckless
23.8%
reasonably likely or greater
53.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 13.8% low, 65.0% moderate, 21.2% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘ A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘ Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2026-10-07
54%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
39
samples
28
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz1813 over
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz102 over
  • Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz8
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (39)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-04-23 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 14.73 10 1.47 Bagging Operator
2024-04-23 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 17.88 10 1.79 Bagging Operator
2024-04-23 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 10.76 10 1.08 Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-04-23 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 22.08 10 2.21 Bagging Operator
2024-04-23 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 17.94 10 1.79 Bagging Operator
2024-02-21 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 61.21 10 6.12 Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-02-21 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 12.9 10 1.29 Bagging Operator
2024-02-21 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 17.83 10 1.78 Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-02-21 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 17.25 10 1.73 Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-02-21 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 96.29 10 9.63 Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-02-21 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 27.26 10 2.73 Bagging Operator
2023-10-11 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 18.75 10 1.88 Crusher Oper/Worker
2023-10-11 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 42.02 10 4.20 Bagging Operator
2023-10-11 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 178.11 10 17.81 Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-09-28 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 15.21 10 1.52 Hammer Mill Operator
2026-10-07 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 81.02 Crusher Oper/Worker
2026-10-07 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 2.13 Front-end Loader Operator
2026-10-07 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.43 Bagging Operator
2024-09-24 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0.33 Bagging Operator
2024-09-24 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0.26 Bagging Operator
2024-09-24 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0.42 Bagging Operator
2024-09-24 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0 Bagging Operator
2024-07-01 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 9.17 Bagging Operator
2024-07-01 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 13.14 Bagging Operator
2024-07-01 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 12.33 Bagging Operator
2024-07-01 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 8.06 Bagging Operator
2024-04-23 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 9.19 10 0.92 Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-04-23 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 8.76 10 0.88 Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-04-23 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 7.21 10 0.72 Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-02-21 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 7.96 10 0.80 Bagging Operator
2024-02-21 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 6.4 10 0.64 Bagging Operator
2023-10-11 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 5.82 10 0.58 Bagging Operator
2023-10-11 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 3.31 10 0.33 Crusher Oper/Worker
2023-10-11 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 2.37 10 0.24 Crusher Oper/Worker
2023-10-11 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 5.68 10 0.57 Crusher Oper/Worker
2023-10-11 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 2.21 10 0.22 Bagging Operator
2023-10-11 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 1.29 10 0.13 Bagging Operator
2023-10-11 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 2.32 10 0.23 Bagging Operator
2022-09-28 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 8.21 10 0.82 Front-end Loader Operator

Area samples (mill and shop air)

Last sampled: 2023-10-12, 3 years ago
9
samples
Show the individual readings (19)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Area sampled
2023-10-12 Nickel dust & salts 0 MP DRY SCREENING
2023-10-12 Vanadium dust 0 MP DRY SCREENING
2023-10-12 Arsenic dust 0 MP DRY SCREENING
2023-10-12 Beryllium dust 0 MP DRY SCREENING
2023-10-12 Cadmium dust & salts 0 MP DRY SCREENING
2023-10-12 Chromium, soluble 0 MP DRY SCREENING
2023-10-12 Cobalt dust 0 MP DRY SCREENING
2023-10-12 Copper dust and mist 0 MP DRY SCREENING
2023-10-12 Lead, inorganic dust 3 MP DRY SCREENING
2023-10-12 Manganese dust 0.02 MP DRY SCREENING
2023-10-12 Molybdenum dust 0 MP DRY SCREENING
2023-10-11 ASBESTOS BULK, ALL FORMS 0 MP DRY SCREENING
2023-10-11 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 180.21 MP DRY SCREENING
2023-10-11 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 23.85 MP DRY SCREENING
2023-10-11 ANALYZED BULK DUST MASS 0 MP BAGGING/PACKAGING
2023-10-11 QUARTZ (BULK DUST) 0 MP BAGGING/PACKAGING
2023-10-11 ASBESTOS BULK, ALL FORMS 0 MP SHOP
2023-09-22 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 10.01 SF ORE PROCESSING
2023-09-22 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 71.81 SF ORE PROCESSING
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.

Ida-Ore recorded 5.70 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000 and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year. Employment reports reach back to 1983, but those earlier years come from MSHA's archived file format and are not used in rates.
5.70
total case rate
5.70
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.98 cases per 100 workers.
In Idaho, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.26 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2025 * 5.70 5.70 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Ida-Ore Mining, LLC 2015 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 17
2025 17
2024 17
2023 15
2022 12
2021 11
2018 0
2017 0
2016 1
2015 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Ida-Ore sits in Jerome County, Idaho, where the Census mining category is 0.0% of county employment.

Local economic context
ⓘ County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Jerome County, Idaho · Population 24,788
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$69,338
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
ⓘ Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2026 Q2 6,900 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 7,965 2 0 251.1
2025 Q4 8,633 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 10,287 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 9,128 13 5 1424.2
2025 Q1 7,010 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 7,899 7 1 886.2
2024 Q3 8,337 0 0 0.0
Show 24 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 9,021 8 1 886.8
2024 Q1 7,248 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 10,764 18 2 1672.2
2023 Q3 7,481 13 3 1737.7
2023 Q2 7,959 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 5,130 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 6,975 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 5,210 7 1 1343.6
2022 Q2 4,762 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 4,546 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 5,897 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 5,023 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 5,488 12 6 2186.6
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 450 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 0 0 0
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2025 · 1 incident

January 22, 2025 ID · Metal/Non-Metal bagging, package operator POWERED HAULAGE
Ida-Ore Mining, LLC · Struck by powered moving object

Employee failed to follow policy and entered a restricted area during truck loading by forklift. They walked into the path of a forklift and was struck. They broke their right leg.