Mining Incidents

Blue Rock Metal/Non-Metal

Don Wesner Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Don Wesner
Rutherford, Napa County, CA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0405519

Blue Rock has $23K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K 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 2002
80
citations
25
significant & substantial
$23,142
proposed penalties
$21,715
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,427 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
27
inspections on record
244
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: 244 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Blue Rock has $23K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K 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.
$23K
proposed penalties
$23K
current assessed
$22K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
78 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-07-10.
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
2009 Q2 2 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 45 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 964 7 4 7261.4
2008 Q1 985 6 1 6091.4
2007 Q4 985 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 985 4 2 4060.9
2006 Q3 965 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 941 2 0 2125.4
Show 14 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2006 Q1 540 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 951 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 965 4 1 4145.1
2005 Q1 951 2 0 2103.0
2004 Q4 949 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 540 3 0 5555.6
2004 Q2 1,039 1 0 962.5
2004 Q1 960 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 960 6 3 6250.0
2003 Q3 540 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 960 14 5 14583.3
2003 Q1 23 8 1 347826.1
2002 Q4 1,560 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,560 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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