Mining Incidents

BERGDALE PIT Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Justin Higman
Hawarden, Union County, SD  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3901439

BERGDALE PIT has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 6 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 2000
36
citations
7
significant & substantial
$17,109
proposed penalties
$7,245
paid to date
42% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $9,864 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
11
inspections on record
118
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: 118 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

BERGDALE PIT has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 6 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.
$17K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
30 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2002-10-08.
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
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2003 Q3 0 0 0
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 0 2 1
2002 Q3 713 12 2 16830.3
2002 Q2 776 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 667 0 0 0.0
Show 6 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2001 Q4 720 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 713 8 0 11220.2
2001 Q2 676 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 447 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 424 14 4 33018.9

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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