Mining Incidents

Bethel Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Port Orchard, Kitsap County, WA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4503748

Bethel Pit has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $453 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 2016
36
citations
3
significant & substantial
$6,782
proposed penalties
$4,597
paid to date
68% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,185 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
25
inspections on record
375
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: 375 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Bethel Pit has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $453 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$453
outstanding
36 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-01.
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 456 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 529 1 0 1890.4
2025 Q1 646 1 0 1548.0
2024 Q4 604 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 695 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 463 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 625 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 582 1 0 1718.2
Show 30 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 709 1 0 1410.4
2023 Q2 567 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 659 2 0 3034.9
2022 Q4 579 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 587 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 605 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 581 3 1 5163.5
2021 Q4 688 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 568 1 0 1760.6
2021 Q2 651 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 503 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 703 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 550 3 0 5454.5
2020 Q2 606 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 566 1 0 1766.8
2019 Q4 547 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 658 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 580 1 0 1724.1
2019 Q1 613 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 611 1 0 1636.7
2018 Q3 669 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 600 5 1 8333.3
2018 Q1 575 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 548 1 0 1824.8
2017 Q3 740 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 578 4 0 6920.4
2017 Q1 591 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 650 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 660 5 0 7575.8
2016 Q2 622 2 1 3215.4

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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