Boise Refining Facility has $681 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2012–2013
Latest incident
Apr 2013
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2011
5
citations
2
significant & substantial
$681
proposed penalties
$681
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
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: 47 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Boise Refining Facility has $681 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.
$681
proposed penalties
$681
current assessed
$681
paid to date
$0
outstanding
5 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2013-06-20.
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: 2011-12-01, 14 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2011-12-01
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.3
0.82
0.37
Washer Operator
2011-12-01
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Washer Operator
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.
Boise Refining Facility recorded 13.93 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2013.
Injury rate, 2013
ⓘ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.
13.93
total case rate
6.96
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.46 and the all-US-mining average was 2.99 cases per 100 workers.
In Idaho, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.62 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
2013 *
13.93
6.96
0.000
2012 *
9.11
0.00
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
2014
12
2013
17
2012
12
2011
5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Boise Refining Facility sits in Ada County, Idaho, 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.
Ada County, Idaho · Population 508,052
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$88,907
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
2014 Q2
4,888
0
0
0.0
2014 Q1
5,166
0
0
0.0
2013 Q4
4,783
0
0
0.0
2013 Q3
7,012
0
0
0.0
2013 Q2
7,748
1
1
129.1
2013 Q1
9,181
0
0
0.0
2012 Q4
6,674
3
1
449.5
2012 Q3
6,092
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2012 Q2
5,298
0
0
0.0
2012 Q1
3,883
0
0
0.0
2011 Q4
1,882
1
0
531.3
2011 Q3
1,653
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
3 on file
2013 · 2 incidents
April 16, 2013ID · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Small cut on left hand. Slipped with razor knife while cutting super sack product bag and poked tip of knife in left hand. Minor injury - first aid cleaned and band aid applied. No impairment. After shift employee sent for tetanus shot.
January 23, 2013ID · Metal/Non-Metalquality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistantSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
We had snow/icy conditions. Preventive measures had been taken in the form of ice melt and sand prior to the injury. Employee slipped and feet came out from under her, falling backwards, hit her head. She walked inside and co-worker asked her what had happened- went for help. Then she was taken by private vehicle to medical facility - diagnosed concussion.
Worker was pulling a cart across a ramp covering a threshold plate. In the process front legs broke off causing part to fall forward onto worker and edge of cart scraped against his face. Worker then reported incident to supervisor and was then treated for minor lacerations.