Mining Incidents

Bear Creek Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Danae Good; Brian Good
Greybull, Big Horn County, WY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4801780

Bear Creek has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 2 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
27
citations
4
significant & substantial
$5,557
proposed penalties
$2,833
paid to date
51% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,724 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
16
inspections on record
178
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: 178 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Bear Creek has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 2 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
27 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2017-11-14.
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
2017 Q4 1,540 1 0 649.4
2017 Q3 2,022 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,136 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,020 1 0 495.0
2016 Q4 2,780 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 3,089 4 1 1294.9
2016 Q2 3,153 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,770 0 0 0.0
Show 6 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2015 Q4 1,767 7 2 3961.5
2015 Q3 1,380 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,020 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,540 2 0 1298.7
2014 Q4 2,287 1 0 437.3
2014 Q3 4,048 11 1 2717.4

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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