Mining Incidents

Blaine Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Black Mountain Sand LLC
Fay, Dewey County, OK  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3402185

Blaine Mine has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

Watch this mine

Email me when a new MSHA incident is filed at Blaine Mine.

Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2019–2020
Latest incident
Feb 2020
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2018
31
citations
7
significant & substantial
$13,534
proposed penalties
$13,534
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
8
inspections on record
153
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: 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.
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
Show 16 earlier quarters
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 7 0 165.2
2019 Q3 41,721 2 0 47.9
2019 Q2 26,842 20 7 745.1
2019 Q1 8,835 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2020 · 1 incident

February 12, 2020 OK · Metal/Non-Metal car trimmer, car loader, bin puller, truck loader SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Black Mountain Sand Midcon LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee stepped wrong and twisted the knee, causing pain. Diagnosed as knee sprain, light duty.

2019 · 3 incidents

October 20, 2019 OK · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Black Mountain Sand, Eagle Ford, LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was loading rotex balls and screens into the skid steer when EE twisted at the waist and strained back.

June 1, 2019 OK · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Black Mountain Sand, Eagle Ford, LLC · Struck against stationary object

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.

January 7, 2019 OK · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Black Mountain Sand, Eagle Ford, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The injured employee got EE's left thumb caught between a forklift mast and a fork causing a laceration to the left thumb.

For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants

The full compliance file on Blaine Mine

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.