Mining Incidents

BOBEN PIT: 52 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Sackrider Maintenance and Excavating Services LLC · Surface
Controlled by Bennie W Sackrider Jr.
Harbor Springs, Emmet County, MI  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2002933

BOBEN PIT has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2000
52
citations
12
significant & substantial
$6,444
proposed penalties
$6,298
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $146 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
37
inspections on record
348
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: 348 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

BOBEN PIT has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
52 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $1K in penalties contested before the Commission, $990 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2021-08-04.
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.
23.1%
significant & substantial
7.7%
high negligence or reckless
23.1%
reasonably likely or greater
42.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.7% low, 84.6% moderate, 7.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
2 citations taken to the federal commission · 4% of citations on record
  • Settled 2 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
13%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1K proposed, $990 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2010-07-28.
Contested penalties
A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
LAKE 2010-874M Settlement Lesnick 2010 $1K → $990
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2017-07-18, 9 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2017-07-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.79 1.22 0.65 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-07-18 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.17 Backhoe Operator
2003-06-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.46 0.75 0.61 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-06-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.53 0.64 0.83 Crusher Oper/Worker
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.
Ownership history
  1. Sackrider Construction Services LLC 1994 to 2021
  2. Sackrider Maintenance and Excavating Services LLC 2021 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2024 0
2023 1
2022 3
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
2016 2
2015 2
2014 3
2013 2
2012 1
2011 2
2010 1
2009 2
2008 2
2007 2
2006 2
2005 2
2004 1
2003 1
2002 1
2001 2
2000 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

BOBEN PIT sits in Emmet County, Michigan, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Emmet County, Michigan · Population 34,159
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$73,724
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 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q2 228 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 185 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 280 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 276 0 0 0.0
Show 87 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q4 276 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 145 7 4 48275.9
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 20 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 573 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 879 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 231 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 615 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 207 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 643 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,112 1 0 899.3
2018 Q2 918 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 793 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,821 1 0 549.1
2017 Q2 1,324 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 643 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,184 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 727 4 1 5502.1
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 540 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,196 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 227 3 1 13215.9
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 743 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,676 1 0 596.7
2014 Q2 804 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 110 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,805 4 0 2216.1
2013 Q2 0 0 0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q3 0 7 1
2012 Q2 1,035 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 303 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 366 1 0 2732.2
2011 Q2 303 1 0 3300.3
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 366 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 186 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 299 6 2 20066.9
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 40 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,514 2 1 1321.0
2009 Q2 432 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 374 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 733 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 656 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 268 1 0 3731.3
2007 Q3 1,056 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 460 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 236 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 532 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 275 3 2 10909.1
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 744 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 808 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 676 3 0 4437.9
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q3 374 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 282 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2003 Q3 1,314 1 0 761.0
2003 Q2 396 1 0 2525.3
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 212 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 685 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 0 0 0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 850 1 0 1176.5
2001 Q3 1,200 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 350 3 0 8571.4
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 300 1 0 3333.3
2000 Q2 748 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 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.