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A-Block Co Inc/Needles Redi-Mix: 16 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Mohave Concrete Incorporated · Surface
Controlled by U S Aggregate Inc
Needles, San Bernardino County, CA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0404118

A-Block Co Inc/Needles Redi-Mix has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $7K in penalties since 2000.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
—
Latest incident
—
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
16
citations
6
significant & substantial
$7,074
proposed penalties
$7,074
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date. The remaining $0 was reduced, settled, contested or is still owed.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
4
inspections on record
55
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: 55 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

A-Block Co Inc/Needles Redi-Mix has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
16 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2001-08-20.
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.
37.5%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
37.5%
reasonably likely or greater
56.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 6.2% low, 93.8% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Brian Lackey Concrete 1950 to 1987
  2. Needles Redi-Mix Inc 1987 to 1997
  3. Mohave Concrete & Materials Inc 1997 to 2001
  4. Mohave Concrete Incorporated 2001 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2002 1
2001 3
2000 4
1999 2
1998 2
1997 2
1996 2
1995 2
1994 1
1993 1
1992 1
1991 0
1990 0
1989 0
1988 0
1987 2
1986 2
1985 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

A-Block Co Inc/Needles Redi-Mix sits in San Bernardino County, California, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
San Bernardino County, California · Population 2,187,816
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$82,184
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 Q1 164 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 564 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 384 4 1 10416.7
2001 Q2 647 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 485 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 957 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,828 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 8,506 0 0 0.0
Show 1 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2000 Q1 1,454 12 5 8253.1

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.