Mining Incidents

45'' Cone Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Carl Weatherton
Bereford, Union County, SD  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3901433

45'' Cone has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 8 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
27
citations
16
significant & substantial
$15,561
proposed penalties
$11,187
paid to date
72% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,374 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
18
inspections on record
210
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: 210 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

45'' Cone has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 8 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.
$16K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
27 assessments are final orders; 8 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2005-11-17.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. 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
2008 Q2 0 0 0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 0 0 0
2007 Q2 0 0 0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q3 0 0 0
Show 26 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2006 Q2 0 0 0
2006 Q1 1,549 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 4,315 3 0 695.2
2005 Q3 6,431 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 4,277 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 3,507 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 2,138 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 2,849 8 5 2808.0
2004 Q2 4,196 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 3,058 1 1 327.0
2003 Q4 6,248 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 5,922 2 1 337.7
2003 Q2 2,637 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 3,717 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 2,510 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 2,307 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 4,270 1 1 234.2
2002 Q1 965 4 1 4145.1
2001 Q4 2,252 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,499 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,936 4 3 2066.1
2001 Q1 1,953 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,360 4 4 2941.2
2000 Q3 3,220 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,825 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 2,026 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.

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The full compliance file on 45'' Cone

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.