Sweetwater Garnet Inc. has had no fatalities among 1 reportable incident since 1997. MSHA has proposed $2K in penalties since 2001, with $1K outstanding.
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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: 46 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Sweetwater Garnet Inc. has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$165
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
8 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2002-08-28.
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2002
0
2001
7
1998
1
1997
12
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.
Sweetwater Garnet Inc. sits in Beaverhead County, Montana, where the Census mining category is 2.7% 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.
Beaverhead County, Montana · Population 9,590
2.7%
Mining share of county employment
$58,072
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
2002 Q4
0
0
0
2002 Q2
0
0
0
2002 Q1
0
0
0
2001 Q4
3,646
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
746
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
4,829
2
0
414.2
2001 Q1
3,015
5
2
1658.4
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
1997 · 1 incident
March 30, 1997MT · Metal/Non-Metalmine manager, mine foreman, mine ownerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE WAS PREPARING TO LOAD EQUIPMENT WITH A FORKLIFT THE EQUIPMENT WAS 10" OFF THE GROUND AND SLIPPED OFF THE FORKS. WHEN THE FRONT HIT THE GROUND THE BOLTS HOLDING A LAUNDER SHEERED OFF. LAUNDE R FELL ON EE S ANKLE.