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Bear Creek Placer Metal/Non-Metal

Bear Creek Placer LLC · Surface

Controlled by Les (Eugene) L Towner; Rob Towner

Drummond, Granite County, MT · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 2402573

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2018
Latest incident: Nov 2018

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2010

citations

significant & substantial

$3,139

proposed penalties

$3,139

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
2022 Q2	320	0	0.0
2021 Q2	0	0
2021 Q1	0	0
2020 Q4	625	0	0.0
2020 Q2	1,300	0	0.0
2020 Q1	145	0	0.0
2019 Q4	245	0	0.0
2019 Q3	2,610	3	1149.4

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2018 · 1 incident

November 7, 2018 MT · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE

Bear Creek Placer LLC · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Unauthorized use of propane torch on operating head pulley (Conveyor). Pulley contacted torch and employee was contacted by head pulley. Extremity cut resulted with bone fracture and multiple stitches.