Mining Incidents

Big Rock Creek Metal/Non-Metal

CalMat Co · Surface
Controlled by Vulcan Materials Company
Pear Blossom, Los Angeles County, CA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0405778

Big Rock Creek has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $400 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2013
Latest incident
Jun 2013
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
17
citations
2
significant & substantial
$3,484
proposed penalties
$2,987
paid to date
86% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $497 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
26
inspections on record
399
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: 399 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 Rock Creek has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $400 outstanding across 1 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$400
outstanding
17 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2017-11-28.
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
2020 Q3 332 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 4,082 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 5,842 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 5,976 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 7,081 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 7,369 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 5,159 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 6,296 0 0 0.0
Show 37 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2018 Q3 6,851 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 7,679 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 6,809 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 5,932 1 0 168.6
2017 Q3 6,179 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 5,781 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 5,163 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 5,605 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 5,507 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 6,361 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 6,383 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 6,279 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 6,554 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 6,903 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 6,627 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 6,397 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 6,633 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 6,618 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 6,807 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 6,078 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 6,365 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 7,175 4 0 557.5
2013 Q1 6,052 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 6,496 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 6,607 2 0 302.7
2012 Q2 6,490 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 6,534 2 1 306.1
2011 Q4 5,972 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 5,447 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 5,785 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 6,027 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 6,754 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 5,633 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 4,629 1 0 216.0
2010 Q1 4,516 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 2,813 5 0 1777.5
2009 Q3 3,557 2 1 562.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2013 · 1 incident

June 18, 2013 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
CalMat Co · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

On 2/25/15 Vulcan was informed by its third-party insurance administrator that an agreed medical evaluator through the litigation process determined the employee's post-termination alleged cumulative trauma injuries to his head, shoulders, arms, elbows, hands, fingers, L-foot, toes, knee and thigh were work-related.

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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.