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Big Seam mine Metal/Non-Metal

Eagle's Nest Mining LLC · Underground

Controlled by Focused Mining Enterprises LLC

FORESTHILL, Placer County, CA  ·  Active

MSHA Mine ID: 0404468

Big Seam mine has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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

2022

Latest incident

Mar 2022

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

42

citations

3

significant & substantial

$5,898

proposed penalties

$5,898

paid to date

100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Inspection activity

MSHA inspections since 2000

64

inspections on record

871

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: 871 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 Seam mine has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition

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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.

$6K

proposed penalties

$6K

current assessed

$6K

paid to date

$0

outstanding

40 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.

As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-07.

Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

Quarterly safety rates

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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	3,334	0	0	0.0
2025 Q2	3,894	0	0	0.0
2025 Q1	3,598	0	0	0.0
2024 Q4	3,558	1	0	281.1
2024 Q3	2,922	1	0	342.2
2024 Q2	2,865	0	0	0.0
2024 Q1	2,729	0	0	0.0
2023 Q4	2,349	1	0	425.7

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Quarter	Hours worked	Citations	S&S	Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3	2,025	1	0	493.8
2023 Q2	2,211	2	0	904.6
2023 Q1	1,873	1	0	533.9
2022 Q4	1,414	0	0	0.0
2022 Q3	1,056	13	1	12310.6
2022 Q2	1,308	3	0	2293.6
2022 Q1	1,437	4	2	2783.6
2021 Q4	1,867	0	0	0.0
2021 Q3	1,988	0	0	0.0
2021 Q2	1,760	0	0	0.0
2021 Q1	1,164	0	0	0.0
2020 Q4	420	0	0	0.0
2012 Q1	57	0	0	0.0
2011 Q4	68	0	0	0.0
2011 Q2	40	0	0	0.0
2011 Q1	83	0	0	0.0
2010 Q4	79	1	0	12658.2
2010 Q3	48	1	0	20833.3
2010 Q2	175	0	0	0.0
2010 Q1	350	3	0	8571.4
2009 Q4	306	0	0	0.0
2009 Q3	840	0	0	0.0
2009 Q2	237	0	0	0.0
2009 Q1	390	0	0	0.0
2008 Q4	287	0	0	0.0
2008 Q3	342	0	0	0.0
2008 Q2	345	1	0	2898.6
2008 Q1	211	0	0	0.0
2007 Q3	275	0	0	0.0
2007 Q2	269	2	0	7434.9
2007 Q1	444	0	0	0.0
2006 Q4	360	1	0	2777.8
2006 Q3	166	0	0	0.0
2006 Q2	270	0	0	0.0
2006 Q1	463	0	0	0.0
2005 Q4	757	0	0	0.0
2005 Q3	80	0	0	0.0
2005 Q2	425	0	0	0.0
2005 Q1	469	0	0	0.0
2004 Q4	361	0	0	0.0
2004 Q3	491	2	0	4073.3
2004 Q2	550	0	0	0.0
2004 Q1	431	0	0	0.0
2003 Q3	595	0	0	0.0
2003 Q2	444	0	0	0.0
2003 Q1	416	0	0	0.0
2002 Q4	416	0	0	0.0
2002 Q3	402	0	0	0.0
2002 Q2	470	0	0	0.0
2002 Q1	485	0	0	0.0
2001 Q4	338	0	0	0.0
2001 Q3	1,450	0	0	0.0
2001 Q2	560	0	0	0.0
2001 Q1	330	0	0	0.0
2000 Q4	576	1	0	1736.1
2000 Q3	430	0	0	0.0
2000 Q2	243	0	0	0.0
2000 Q1	376	0	0	0.0

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2022 · 1 incident

March 1, 2022 CA · Metal/Non-Metal miner, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Eagle's Nest Mining LLC · Struck against stationary object

The miner was hanging a 1.75" flexible conduit over a peg when the rubber housing stuck at the top of the peg and did not fall into the back of the peg. Using right fist with the thumb pointed at themselves, the miner attempted to set the cable when a perfect razor-sharp tooth of rock went through gloves into the side of hand where the palm meets the pinky finger.

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