Mining Incidents

ARP Portable Wash Plant: 10 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by CRH PLC
Parker, Yakima County, WA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4503721

ARP Portable Wash Plant has $1K 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
1
Years on record
2016
Latest incident
Nov 2016
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2014
10
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,169
proposed penalties
$1,107
paid to date
95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $62 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
7
inspections on record
143
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: 143 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

ARP Portable Wash Plant has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
10 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $162 in penalties contested before the Commission, $100 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-04-24.
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
40.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 40.0% low, 60.0% moderate, 0.0% 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.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 10% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 100%
38%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$162 proposed, $100 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 2015-08-13.
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 2015-0826 Settlement Barbour 2016 $162 → $100
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: 2018-08-29, 7 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2018-08-29 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 10 0.01 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-07-16 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.15 Washer 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. Columbia Ready-Mix, Inc. 2013 to 2017
  2. American Rock Products 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2023 7
2022 3
2021 1
2020 1
2019 4
2018 6
2017 6
2016 4
2015 3
2014 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

ARP Portable Wash Plant sits in Yakima County, Washington, 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.
Yakima County, Washington · Population 256,605
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$68,015
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
2023 Q1 302 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 41 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 117 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 776 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 0 0 0
2021 Q2 262 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
Show 28 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2020 Q4 65 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 12 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,134 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 916 1 0 1091.7
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 470 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 550 2 0 3636.4
2018 Q2 1,677 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,201 2 0 1665.3
2017 Q4 1,279 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,160 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,429 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,325 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 888 1 0 1126.1
2016 Q3 1,086 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 986 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 417 1 0 2398.1
2015 Q4 849 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 785 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,205 2 0 1659.8
2015 Q1 102 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,617 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,061 1 0 942.5
2014 Q2 522 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2016 · 1 incident

November 7, 2016 WA · Metal/Non-Metal crusher attendant/operator, pan feeder operator/worker SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Columbia Ready-Mix, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Stepped off dry docket pontoon. Foot slipped, EE twisted ankle and landed wrong causing hairline fracture.