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Almond Avenue Mine: 4 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by John H Franklin
Biggs, Butte County, CA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0405928

Almond Avenue Mine has $512 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
0
Years on record
—
Latest incident
—
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2020
4
citations
0
significant & substantial
$512
proposed penalties
$512
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Franklin Construction's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
10
inspections on record
94
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: 94 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Almond Avenue Mine has $512 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.
$512
proposed penalties
$512
current assessed
$512
paid to date
$0
outstanding
4 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-09-06.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
0.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 75.0% low, 25.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2025-01-22
3
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-01-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-07-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-07-21 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.18 Laborer, Bullgang
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. Franklin Construction 2018 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 3
2023 2
2022 2
2021 3
2020 2
2019 2
2018 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Almond Avenue Mine sits in Butte 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.
Butte County, California · Population 209,470
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$68,574
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
2026 Q2 896 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 665 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 522 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 121 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 731 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 11 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 895 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,625 0 0 0.0
Show 24 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 643 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 48 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,035 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,624 1 0 615.8
2023 Q2 186 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 36 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 853 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,549 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,083 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 114 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,237 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,783 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 611 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 113 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,263 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,644 3 0 1824.8
2020 Q2 119 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 98 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 994 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,697 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 886 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 95 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,090 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,384 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.