Mining Incidents

Birch Creek Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Nathan Robinson
Oakley, Cassia County, ID  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1002037

Birch Creek has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $604 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 2004
43
citations
6
significant & substantial
$4,872
proposed penalties
$4,268
paid to date
88% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $604 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
37
inspections on record
346
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: 346 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Birch Creek has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $604 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$604
outstanding
41 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-25.
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 36 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,047 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,184 4 0 3378.4
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 2,024 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 4,224 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 288 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
Show 82 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 3,584 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 5,200 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 800 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 2,025 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 8,400 2 0 238.1
2022 Q2 616 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q3 4,680 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,808 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 4,608 2 0 434.0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 4,440 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 5,808 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 5,040 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 8,400 2 1 238.1
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 5,184 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,784 2 0 718.4
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 0 0 0
2016 Q3 6,240 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 5,600 6 1 1071.4
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 416 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 3,792 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 5,040 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 864 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 8,848 2 1 226.0
2014 Q2 0 0 0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 0 0 0
2013 Q3 5,056 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 3,600 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q3 4,312 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 5,184 3 1 578.7
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 0 0 0
2011 Q3 4,500 3 0 666.7
2011 Q2 2,400 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 4,300 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 3,808 4 1 1050.4
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 24 2 1 83333.3
2008 Q3 3,800 2 0 526.3
2008 Q2 9,120 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 1,090 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 9,646 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 9,556 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 10,783 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 9,632 4 0 415.3
2006 Q2 9,720 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 0 0 0
2005 Q3 4,800 2 0 416.7
2005 Q2 1,280 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 0 0 0
2004 Q3 4,800 1 0 208.3
2004 Q2 490 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2003 Q3 3,360 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,300 0 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 Birch Creek

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.