Mining Incidents

Big Horn Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Wickenberg, Maricopa County, AZ  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0202804

Big Horn Mine has $60K 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
4
Years on record
2014–2021
Latest incident
Apr 2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
173
citations
50
significant & substantial
$60,349
proposed penalties
$59,122
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,227 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
70
inspections on record
950
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: 950 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Big Horn Mine has $60K 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.
$60K
proposed penalties
$59K
current assessed
$59K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
173 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-03.
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 8,112 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 6,240 4 1 641.0
2025 Q2 6,864 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 6,240 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 6,864 12 2 1748.3
2024 Q3 6,864 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 6,864 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 6,864 7 4 1019.8
Show 95 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 6,240 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 4,992 7 0 1402.2
2023 Q2 5,733 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 5,109 3 1 587.2
2022 Q4 7,644 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 5,148 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 7,644 2 0 261.6
2022 Q1 8,411 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 8,411 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 7,787 1 0 128.4
2021 Q2 8,385 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 8,805 3 1 340.7
2020 Q4 7,761 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 7,761 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 6,513 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 6,383 6 3 940.0
2019 Q4 5,484 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 6,277 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 5,841 8 2 1369.6
2019 Q1 5,193 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 5,040 6 2 1190.5
2018 Q3 5,073 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 6,513 2 0 307.1
2018 Q1 5,457 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 5,409 1 0 184.9
2017 Q3 6,129 2 0 326.3
2017 Q2 6,397 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 6,140 1 0 162.9
2016 Q4 5,872 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 6,540 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 6,226 4 1 642.5
2016 Q1 6,160 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 5,980 5 2 836.1
2015 Q3 6,430 1 0 155.5
2015 Q2 6,658 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 5,960 2 2 335.6
2014 Q4 5,724 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 5,543 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 6,660 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 5,526 7 1 1266.7
2013 Q4 4,430 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 4,298 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 4,472 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 4,832 1 0 207.0
2012 Q4 4,528 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 3,399 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 4,992 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 4,332 1 1 230.8
2011 Q4 4,019 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 3,546 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 3,896 1 0 256.7
2011 Q1 3,696 1 0 270.6
2010 Q4 3,332 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 3,347 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 3,504 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 3,684 12 5 3257.3
2009 Q4 3,540 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 3,532 5 3 1415.6
2009 Q2 4,278 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 4,559 3 0 658.0
2008 Q4 4,748 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 4,792 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 4,816 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 4,912 1 1 203.6
2007 Q4 5,436 7 1 1287.7
2007 Q3 5,658 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 5,988 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 6,522 2 0 306.7
2006 Q4 6,220 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 6,050 7 1 1157.0
2006 Q2 6,140 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 6,754 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 6,438 5 2 776.6
2005 Q3 5,698 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 6,028 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 5,860 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 5,310 2 2 376.6
2004 Q3 4,830 3 1 621.1
2004 Q2 6,060 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 6,240 13 1 2083.3
2003 Q4 5,461 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 5,460 3 0 549.5
2003 Q2 5,440 7 6 1286.8
2003 Q1 4,800 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 3,906 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 3,627 6 0 1654.3
2002 Q2 3,962 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 3,689 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 3,906 8 4 2048.1
2001 Q3 3,748 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 3,510 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 3,780 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 3,780 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 5,208 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 3,000 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2021 · 1 incident

April 30, 2021 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal water truck operator POWERED HAULAGE
Custom Landscape Materials LLC · Struck by rolling or sliding object

Spraying water on the muck pile, turned around to shut off water. Boulder rolled down muck pile and hit EE on the left leg.

2020 · 1 incident

July 30, 2020 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal superintendent MACHINERY
Custom Landscape Materials LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Welding wear liners in drop chute of jaw crusher. Liner slipped & pinched finger between liner and other plate.

2014 · 2 incidents

December 4, 2014 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Custom Landscape Materials LLC · Struck against stationary object

While performing maintenance on the heater thermostat of a 988F wheel loader, the right hand middle finger came in contact with squirrel fan.

April 22, 2014 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Custom Landscape Materials LLC · Struck against stationary object

Stepped backwards onto a rock 2" x 2" and knee popped. Said knee didn't hurt till 4-24-14. Went to hospital 4-25-14.

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The full compliance file on Big Horn Mine

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.