Mining Incidents

American Girl Mine East: 15 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Pyramid Construction and Aggregates Inc · Surface
Controlled by Daryl Dickerson
Ogilby, Imperial County, CA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0405761

American Girl Mine East has $2K 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 2014
15
citations
3
significant & substantial
$1,877
proposed penalties
$1,877
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
16
inspections on record
261
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: 261 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

American Girl Mine East has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
15 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-09-10.
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.
20.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
20.0%
reasonably likely or greater
66.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 20.0% low, 80.0% 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: 2026-08-27
3
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-08-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2024-07-31 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2020-01-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 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. Pyramid Construction and Aggregates Inc 2008 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 13
2025 14
2024 9
2023 8
2022 7
2021 7
2020 9
2019 11
2018 9
2017 13
2016 15
2015 11
2014 14
2013 10
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

American Girl Mine East sits in Imperial County, California, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Imperial County, California · Population 179,319
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$56,393
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 1,678 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 2,433 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 2,501 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,336 1 0 748.5
2025 Q2 894 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 873 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,097 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,368 0 0 0.0
Show 45 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 753 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,914 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 445 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 563 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,256 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 67 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 166 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,378 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 19 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 4 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 361 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 575 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 237 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 996 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,310 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,120 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,019 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 4,082 1 1 245.0
2019 Q4 4,069 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,920 1 0 520.8
2019 Q2 4,402 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 725 1 1 1379.3
2018 Q4 433 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,146 3 1 2617.8
2018 Q2 2,596 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 679 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,427 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,997 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,612 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 708 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,650 1 0 377.4
2016 Q3 3,014 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 3,087 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 3,835 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 4,171 3 0 719.3
2015 Q2 1,550 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 4,071 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 5,465 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,270 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 2,243 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 2,286 4 0 1749.8
2013 Q4 4,008 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,548 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,654 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,542 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.