Mining Incidents

Bluff Materials Metal/Non-Metal

Bluff Materials · Surface
Controlled by Ray Gene Jeffries
Soper, Choctaw County, OK  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3401657

Bluff Materials has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $735 outstanding across 1 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 2001
35
citations
16
significant & substantial
$3,660
proposed penalties
$2,761
paid to date
75% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $899 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
20
inspections on record
163
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: 163 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Bluff Materials has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $735 outstanding across 1 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$735
outstanding
35 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2005-08-08.
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
2005 Q3 920 2 0 2173.9
2005 Q2 1,425 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,575 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,606 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,386 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,330 7 3 5263.2
2004 Q1 1,500 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,800 0 0 0.0
Show 15 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2003 Q3 1,000 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 360 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 480 1 0 2083.3
2002 Q4 1,320 4 2 3030.3
2002 Q3 1,440 1 1 694.4
2002 Q2 1,725 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 2,020 8 2 3960.4
2001 Q4 2,000 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,520 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 2,445 4 1 1636.0
2001 Q1 2,425 8 7 3299.0
2000 Q4 1,580 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,060 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 2,920 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 2,962 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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