59TH AVE. PLANT #44: 42 MSHA citations
Metal/Non-Metal
SALT RIVER BOTTOM,
Maricopa County,
AZ
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Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0202469
59TH AVE. PLANT #44 has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 7
- Years on record
- 1991–2000
- Latest incident
- Mar 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
13
significant & substantial
$3,267
proposed penalties
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 151 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
59TH AVE. PLANT #44 has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
38 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2001-12-06.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
31.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
31.0%
reasonably likely or greater
76.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 11.9% low, 88.1% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
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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)
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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: 2001-06-14, 25 years ago
Most sampled contaminants
- Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz31 over
Show the individual readings (3)
| Date |
Contaminant |
Concentration |
Limit |
Conc / limit |
Occupation |
| 2001-06-14 |
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz |
1.11 |
0.35 |
3.17 |
Crusher Oper/Worker |
| 2001-06-14 |
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz |
0.52 |
0.88 |
0.59 |
Cleanup Man |
| 2001-06-14 |
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz |
0.32 |
1.13 |
0.28 |
Front-end Loader Operator |
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.
59TH AVE. PLANT #44 recorded 7.45 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2000.
Injury rate, 2000
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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, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.77 and the all-US-mining average was 5.64 cases per 100 workers.
In Arizona, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.63 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.
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.
Workforce and production
| Year |
Employees |
| 2001 |
12 |
| 2000 |
18 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
59TH AVE. PLANT #44 sits in Maricopa County, Arizona, where the Census mining category is 0.2% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.
Maricopa County, Arizona · Population 4,491,987
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$85,518
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
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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 |
| 2001 Q3 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
|
| 2001 Q2 |
9,781 |
13 |
2 |
1329.1 |
| 2001 Q1 |
9,387 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2000 Q4 |
10,222 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2000 Q3 |
19,709 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2000 Q2 |
12,013 |
25 |
11 |
2081.1 |
| 2000 Q1 |
11,783 |
1 |
0 |
84.9 |
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
7 on file
2000 · 2 incidents
March 23, 2000
AZ · Metal/Non-Metal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
POWERED HAULAGE
RUNNING THE SCRAPER, EMPLOYEE LOOKED BACK AT CAN AND HIT A BUMP RESULTING IN HURTING HIS BACK.
March 13, 2000
AZ · Metal/Non-Metal
maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech
HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Pioneer Concrete Of Arizona Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects
INJURED WAS LIFTING/ ROLLING I BEAMS TO CUT THEM WHEN HE STRAINED HIS BACK.
1997 · 1 incident
April 29, 1997
AZ · Metal/Non-Metal
warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator
POWERED HAULAGE
Pioneer Sand Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
WORKER STANDING ON LADDER WHILE PUTTING RUBBER IN HOPPER. LADDER SLIPPED AND WORKER FELL CATCHING RIGHT ARM BETWEEN FRAME. FAST MOVING BELT CUT FOREARM BEFORE HE COULD MOVE IT.
1994 · 2 incidents
September 22, 1994
AZ · Metal/Non-Metal
haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver
HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Pioneer Sand Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EE WAS STANDING IN THE SHOP TALKING TO ANOTHER EE WHEN SUPPORT LEG FOR A TRUCK TRAILER THAT WERE LEANING AGAINST SOME OIL BARRELS FELL OVER AND STRUCK THE FIRST EE ON HIS BACK. PARAMEDICS WERE CALLED TO STABLIZE AND TRANSPORT TO HOSPTIAL.
Pioneer Sand Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING A PIECE OF BELTING WITH A RAZOR KNIFE & SLIPPED & CUT HIS LEFT HAND THUMB, IT TOOK ONE STITCH.
1992 · 1 incident
January 4, 1992
AZ · Metal/Non-Metal
laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Pioneer Sand Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface
DESCENDING STRIP SLOPE TO WORK ON WATER SUPPLY ROCKS LOOSENED CAUSING FALL ON SHOULDER.
1991 · 1 incident
Pioneer Sand Company · Fall from ladders
GETTING DOWN OFF LADDER-MISSED STEP AND FELL-MAKING CONTACT W/GROUND ON RIGHT SHOULDER-RAINING AT THE TIME-WETNERS COULD HAVE CONTRIBUTED.