Mining Incidents

Billington Gravel Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Robert O Billington
Duluth, MN, St Louis County, MN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2103031

Billington Gravel Pit has $94K in proposed MSHA penalties and $64K outstanding across 9 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 2001
158
citations
48
significant & substantial
$93,935
proposed penalties
$21,363
paid to date
23% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $72,572 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
32
inspections on record
466
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: 466 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Billington Gravel Pit has $94K in proposed MSHA penalties and $64K outstanding across 9 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.
$94K
proposed penalties
$86K
current assessed
$21K
paid to date
$64K
outstanding
154 assessments are final orders; 9 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2015-08-28.
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
2015 Q3 960 6 2 6250.0
2015 Q2 700 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 500 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 375 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 110 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 215 10 2 46511.6
Show 48 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2013 Q3 550 9 1 16363.6
2013 Q2 100 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q3 480 20 6 41666.7
2011 Q2 1,200 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 1 0
2010 Q4 500 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 800 21 8 26250.0
2010 Q2 800 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 401 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,200 26 14 21666.7
2009 Q2 700 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 320 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,080 14 4 12963.0
2008 Q2 320 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 960 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q3 960 5 0 5208.3
2006 Q2 960 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q3 1,140 7 2 6140.4
2005 Q2 988 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 0 0 0
2004 Q3 960 2 2 2083.3
2004 Q2 540 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,040 11 2 10576.9
2003 Q2 640 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 240 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 825 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 480 9 0 18750.0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 240 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 640 2 1 3125.0
2001 Q2 540 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 0 0 0
2000 Q3 800 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,590 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 0 0 0

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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The full compliance file on Billington Gravel Pit

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.