Mining Incidents

Black Rock Canyon Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by New Gold Recovery USA
Crescent Valley, Lander County, NV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2602572

Black Rock Canyon has $62K in proposed MSHA penalties and $25K outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2006–2011
Latest incident
Sep 2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
132
citations
53
significant & substantial
$62,471
proposed penalties
$33,980
paid to date
54% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $28,491 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
48
inspections on record
652
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: 652 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 Rock Canyon has $62K in proposed MSHA penalties and $25K outstanding across 3 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.
$62K
proposed penalties
$59K
current assessed
$34K
paid to date
$25K
outstanding
131 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2017-12-09.
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
2018 Q1 5,881 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 33,332 21 14 630.0
2017 Q3 21,148 11 3 520.1
2017 Q2 8,253 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 3,376 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 4,750 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 3,382 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,400 4 3 2857.1
Show 31 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2015 Q1 2,034 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,402 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,034 4 1 1966.6
2014 Q2 2,398 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 2,032 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 2,316 9 0 3886.0
2013 Q3 2,299 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 2,912 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 2,416 6 2 2483.4
2012 Q4 4,182 1 0 239.1
2012 Q3 7,242 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 6,525 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 5,597 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 9,672 4 2 413.6
2011 Q3 5,447 13 6 2386.6
2011 Q2 2,409 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 2,499 7 2 2801.1
2009 Q2 460 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 524 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 4,615 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 2,758 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 2,515 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 3,027 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 3,602 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 9,172 20 9 2180.5
2007 Q2 5,410 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 3,522 1 0 283.9
2006 Q3 8,282 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 5,737 6 3 1045.8
2006 Q1 4,679 8 3 1709.8
2005 Q4 5,360 7 2 1306.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2011 · 1 incident

September 29, 2011 NV · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
New Gold Nevada, Inc · Struck against a moving object

Bruised - nothing broken

2006 · 1 incident

September 22, 2006 NV · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
New Gold Nevada, Inc · Struck by flying object

Truck driver was hit in the eye with broken glass when another truck passing flipped a rock up that hit the side window shattering the glass that flew in the left eye of the victim. The victim was taken by ambulance to the Battle Montain hospital where he was checked and released.

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The full compliance file on Black Rock Canyon

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.