Mining Incidents

Black Angel Metal/Non-Metal

Empire Rock Inc · Surface
Controlled by Stan Houck
Barstow, San Bernardino County, CA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0405650

Black Angel has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2005
48
citations
14
significant & substantial
$5,626
proposed penalties
$5,626
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
25
inspections on record
328
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: 328 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Black Angel has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
48 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2015-10-27.
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 Q4 2,380 5 4 2100.8
2015 Q3 3,639 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 3,916 3 1 766.1
2015 Q1 3,846 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 3,850 2 0 519.5
2014 Q3 4,297 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 5,042 3 1 595.0
2014 Q1 4,770 0 0 0.0
Show 26 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2013 Q4 5,048 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 4,963 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 4,170 1 0 239.8
2013 Q1 4,102 1 1 243.8
2012 Q4 3,864 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 4,429 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 4,462 4 0 896.5
2012 Q1 4,694 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 5,442 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 5,254 5 3 951.7
2009 Q3 2,619 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 5,666 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 5,364 3 0 559.3
2008 Q4 3,883 6 2 1545.2
2008 Q3 4,152 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 5,555 1 0 180.0
2008 Q1 4,888 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 2,356 1 0 424.4
2007 Q3 2,825 5 2 1769.9
2007 Q2 3,771 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 3,674 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 4,070 4 0 982.8
2006 Q3 5,453 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 5,197 1 0 192.4
2005 Q4 2,679 3 0 1119.8
2005 Q3 2,037 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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