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Benton City Wash Plant: 226 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

AAA Concrete, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Pamp Maiers
Benton, Benton County, WA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4503490

Benton City Wash Plant has $133K in proposed MSHA penalties and $116 outstanding across 12 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2001
Latest incident
Nov 2001
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
226
citations
77
significant & substantial
$133,204
proposed penalties
$89,854
paid to date
67% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $43,350 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See AAA Concrete, Inc.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
65
inspections on record
1,196
inspection hours
18.9
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.
226 citations across 1,196 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Benton City Wash Plant has $133K in proposed MSHA penalties and $116 outstanding across 12 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.
$133K
proposed penalties
$90K
current assessed
$90K
paid to date
$116
outstanding
225 assessments are final orders; 12 contested dockets.
Of $97K in penalties contested before the Commission, $54K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-01-13.
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.
34.1%
significant & substantial
4.4%
high negligence or reckless
34.1%
reasonably likely or greater
77.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 13.3% low, 82.3% moderate, 4.4% 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.
70 citations taken to the federal commission · 31% of citations on record
  • Settled 70 · 100%
97%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 31 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
45%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$97K proposed, $53K 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 2011-12-28.
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 2008-649M Settlement Barbour 2010 $83K → $42K
WEST 2006-402M Settlement Lesnick 2006 $3K → $3K
WEST 2010-596M Settlement Manning 2011 $3K → $3K
WEST 2008-415M Settlement Barbour 2010 $2K → $2K
WEST 2009-1068M Settlement Manning 2011 $1K → $1K
WEST 2012-366M Settlement Lesnick 2012 $951 → $602
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: 2017-10-25, 8 years ago
27%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
35
samples
26
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz267 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg5
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz4
Show the individual readings (35)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2015-06-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.96 0.56 1.71 Laborer, Bullgang
2009-08-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.62 0.45 1.38 Cleanup Man
2009-08-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.67 0.66 1.02 Crusher Oper/Worker
2009-08-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.42 0.8 1.78 Cleanup Man
2009-05-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.51 0.47 1.09 Cleanup Man
2009-05-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.62 0.5 1.24 Cleanup Man
2004-02-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 2.07 1.28 1.62 Crusher Oper/Worker
2017-10-25 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-10-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2015-08-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2015-06-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.61 0.86 0.71 Crusher Oper/Worker
2014-05-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.46 1.6 0.29 Laborer, Bullgang
2014-05-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.68 0.95 0.72 Laborer, Bullgang
2014-05-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.98 1.06 0.92 Crusher Oper/Worker
2009-10-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 1.01 0.23 Laborer, Bullgang
2009-10-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 1.39 0.10 Laborer, Bullgang
2009-10-21 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.12 Crusher Oper/Worker
2007-12-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.49 3.09 0.48 Crusher Oper/Worker
2007-12-05 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.17 Crusher Oper/Worker
2007-12-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.47 1.87 0.25 Cleanup Man
2005-02-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 0.5 0.48 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-02-23 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.16 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-02-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.49 0.66 0.74 Laborer, Bullgang
2004-05-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.41 0.94 0.44 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-02-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-02-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.58 1.5 0.39 Laborer, Bullgang
2004-02-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.36 1.35 0.27 Laborer, Bullgang
2003-03-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2003-03-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.54 0.26 Laborer, Bullgang
2003-03-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 1.49 0.22 Mechanic
2003-03-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-02-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.45 0.6 0.75 Truck Driver
2002-02-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.3 0.67 0.45 Laborer, Bullgang
2002-02-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.51 0.77 0.66 Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-02-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 1.14 0.14 Front-end Loader 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.

Benton City Wash Plant recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2004.

Injury rate, 2004
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.73 and the all-US-mining average was 4.33 cases per 100 workers.
In Washington, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 5.46 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2004 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. A J Crushing LLC 2001 to 2014
  2. North Central Construction Inc. 2014 to 2017
  3. AAA Concrete, Inc. 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2023 3
2022 4
2021 2
2020 3
2019 3
2018 3
2017 6
2016 2
2015 5
2014 8
2013 9
2012 9
2011 9
2010 9
2009 8
2008 7
2007 8
2006 8
2005 8
2004 12
2003 21
2002 9
2001 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Benton City Wash Plant sits in Benton County, Washington, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Benton County, Washington · Population 210,224
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$87,316
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 Q2 570 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,789 8 6 4471.8
2022 Q4 1,409 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,579 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,973 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,328 1 0 753.0
2021 Q4 1,246 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,271 0 0 0.0
Show 80 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q2 1,314 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 807 1 0 1239.2
2020 Q4 1,037 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 860 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 945 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 793 1 1 1261.0
2019 Q4 803 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 665 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 779 2 0 2567.4
2019 Q1 592 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 510 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 473 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 750 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 646 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 444 1 0 2252.3
2017 Q3 295 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 557 1 1 1795.3
2017 Q1 240 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 0 0 0
2016 Q3 0 0 0
2016 Q2 1,034 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,657 4 0 2414.0
2015 Q4 1,123 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,390 1 1 418.4
2015 Q2 2,963 7 2 2362.5
2015 Q1 1,048 11 5 10496.2
2014 Q4 1,923 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,984 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 4,873 6 1 1231.3
2014 Q1 2,641 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 2,334 5 2 2142.2
2013 Q3 4,066 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 3,506 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 2,568 5 1 1947.0
2012 Q4 2,349 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 4,498 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 4,967 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 3,501 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 4,208 3 0 712.9
2011 Q3 5,181 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 5,228 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 2,315 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 2,896 9 1 3107.7
2010 Q3 4,264 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 4,172 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 2,101 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 5,268 15 8 2847.4
2009 Q3 4,419 2 0 452.6
2009 Q2 4,681 13 5 2777.2
2009 Q1 1,991 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 2,302 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 3,383 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 3,845 4 0 1040.3
2008 Q1 2,667 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 3,010 9 2 2990.0
2007 Q3 4,075 1 0 245.4
2007 Q2 4,112 24 9 5836.6
2007 Q1 3,907 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 4,253 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 4,580 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 4,605 1 0 217.2
2006 Q1 3,708 12 6 3236.2
2005 Q4 3,502 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 5,485 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 3,613 6 3 1660.7
2005 Q1 2,734 5 2 1828.8
2004 Q4 5,205 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 4,598 5 1 1087.4
2004 Q2 9,152 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 5,741 12 6 2090.2
2003 Q4 8,315 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 8,019 17 3 2120.0
2003 Q2 10,729 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 6,272 5 1 797.2
2002 Q4 5,477 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 5,553 5 1 900.4
2002 Q2 3,803 1 1 263.0
2002 Q1 2,705 11 1 4066.5
2001 Q4 3,761 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 5,030 11 7 2186.9
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2001 · 1 incident

November 28, 2001 WA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
A J Crushing LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

SNOWING AND RAIN. GROUND WAS SLICK AND ICY, TWISTED ANKLE, PULLED LIGAMENTS.