Mining Incidents

7/11 Materials - Adams Pit: 70 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

7/11 Materials Inc · Surface
Controlled by Reed Family Companies
BISHOP, Inyo County, CA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0404777

7/11 Materials - Adams Pit has $34K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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
70
citations
23
significant & substantial
$33,718
proposed penalties
$20,547
paid to date
61% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $13,171 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
27
inspections on record
351
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: 351 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

7/11 Materials - Adams Pit has $34K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$34K
proposed penalties
$21K
current assessed
$21K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
70 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $24K in penalties contested before the Commission, $10K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-10-21.
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.
32.9%
significant & substantial
27.1%
high negligence or reckless
32.9%
reasonably likely or greater
54.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 1.4% low, 71.4% moderate, 27.1% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
10 citations taken to the federal commission · 14% of citations on record
  • Settled 10 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 7 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
56%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$24K proposed, $10K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2009-11-03.
Contested penalties
A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
WEST 2010-393M Settlement Miller 2011 $24K → $10K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2009-02-26, 17 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
6
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (6)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2009-02-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 1.91 0.14 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-02-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 1.37 0.18 Cleanup Man
2003-06-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2003-06-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-05-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.42 1.57 0.27 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-05-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.3 1.9 0.16 Dry Screen Plant 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.
Ownership history
  1. Hiatt Sand & Gravel 1985 to 1989
  2. Hiatt Ready Mix Inc 1989 to 2009
  3. 7/11 Materials Inc 2009 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2011 1
2010 2
2009 2
2008 3
2007 3
2006 2
2005 3
2004 3
2003 2
2002 2
2001 2
2000 6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

7/11 Materials - Adams Pit sits in Inyo County, California, where the Census mining category is 1.7% 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.
Inyo County, California · Population 18,803
1.7%
Mining share of county employment
$72,432
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, 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
2011 Q3 0 0 0
2011 Q2 233 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 870 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 419 8 3 19093.1
2010 Q3 1,051 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 552 2 0 3623.2
2010 Q1 390 5 1 12820.5
2009 Q4 491 0 0 0.0
Show 39 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2009 Q3 1,517 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,129 10 7 8857.4
2009 Q1 674 12 6 17804.2
2008 Q4 343 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 828 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,136 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 852 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 553 3 0 5425.0
2007 Q3 621 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 842 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 770 2 0 2597.4
2006 Q4 833 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,018 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 690 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 714 6 0 8403.4
2005 Q4 474 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 955 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,072 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 828 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,058 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 536 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 877 4 1 4561.0
2004 Q1 548 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 363 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 683 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 697 6 3 8608.3
2003 Q1 1,118 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 929 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 840 6 1 7142.9
2002 Q1 727 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 901 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 892 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,027 4 0 3894.8
2001 Q1 898 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,590 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 3,491 2 1 572.9
2000 Q2 1,297 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,360 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.