Mining Incidents

Bitterroot Rock Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Kip Mc Clendon
Darby, Ravalli County, MT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2402155

Bitterroot Rock has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $6K 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 2001
37
citations
21
significant & substantial
$16,182
proposed penalties
$10,536
paid to date
65% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $5,646 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
7
inspections on record
96
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: 96 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Bitterroot Rock has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $6K 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.
$16K
proposed penalties
$16K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$6K
outstanding
37 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-10-19.
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
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q3 301 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 220 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 564 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 562 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 525 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 0 34 20
Show 8 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2001 Q4 521 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 468 2 1 4273.5
2001 Q2 539 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 333 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 510 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 399 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 27 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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