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: 153 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Blaine Mine has $14K 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.
$14K
proposed penalties
$14K
current assessed
$14K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
31 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-12-11.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘShares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘA sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.
Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘMany samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2019-04-03, 7 years ago
4
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg4
Show the individual readings (4)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2019-04-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Kiln/Dryer Operator
2019-04-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Kiln/Dryer Operator
2019-04-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Loader
2019-04-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Scale Man
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Blaine Mine recorded 3.14 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2020.
Injury rate, 2020
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
3.14
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.77 and the all-US-mining average was 2.08 cases per 100 workers.
In Oklahoma, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.80 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2020 *
3.14
0.00
0.000
2019
3.34
1.67
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2024
2
2023
2
2022
1
2021
1
2020
30
2019
57
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Blaine Mine sits in Dewey County, Oklahoma, where the Census mining category is 12.0% of county employment.
Local economic context
ⓘCounty figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Dewey County, Oklahoma · Population 4,433
12.0%
Mining share of county employment
$60,550
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
2024 Q4
1,129
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
1,116
0
0
0.0
2024 Q2
1,117
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
1,072
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
1,038
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
1,049
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
929
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
466
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2022 Q4
486
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
506
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
379
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
558
0
0
0.0
2021 Q4
624
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
663
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
597
0
0
0.0
2021 Q1
512
0
0
0.0
2020 Q4
1,069
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
1,800
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
15,103
0
0
0.0
2020 Q1
45,754
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
42,376
4
0
94.4
2019 Q3
41,721
1
0
24.0
2019 Q2
26,842
4
1
149.0
2019 Q1
8,835
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file
2020 · 1 incident
February 12, 2020OK · Metal/Non-Metalcar trimmer, car loader, bin puller, truck loaderSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Employee was working at clearing the chute where the Cyclone from the West Dryer discharges into the sump. As EE was working to clear this chute EE smashed hand into the top opening of the chute causing injury to the tip of the little finger on the left hand. The fingernail was lost and the tip of the finger required stitches.