Mining Incidents

Barber Pit Metal/Non-Metal

SB Stone · Surface
Ryegate, Golden Valley County, MT  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2402642

Barber Pit has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K 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 2012
50
citations
18
significant & substantial
$6,014
proposed penalties
$2,557
paid to date
43% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,457 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
32
inspections on record
313
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: 313 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Barber Pit has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
48 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-09-13.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2025 Q4 416 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 610 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 457 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 421 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 598 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 618 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 587 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 467 0 0 0.0
Show 31 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 429 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 565 3 0 5309.7
2023 Q2 520 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 468 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 461 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 583 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,207 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,126 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 720 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,076 1 1 929.4
2021 Q2 1,118 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 839 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 956 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,053 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,086 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 760 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 871 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,039 3 1 2887.4
2019 Q2 727 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 740 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 340 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 318 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 711 2 1 2812.9
2017 Q1 960 6 2 6250.0
2016 Q4 2,139 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 3,090 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,172 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 931 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 891 8 1 8978.7
2015 Q3 1,471 1 0 679.8
2015 Q2 1,237 7 4 5658.9

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.

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