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Boulder Northwest Sand & Gravel: 37 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Granite Falls, Snohomish County, WA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4503771

Boulder Northwest Sand & Gravel has $28K in proposed MSHA penalties and $25K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2020
Latest incident
Jul 2020
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
37
citations
13
significant & substantial
$28,094
proposed penalties
$3,253
paid to date
12% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $24,841 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Boulder Northwest Sand & Gravel, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
11
inspections on record
175
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: 175 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Boulder Northwest Sand & Gravel has $28K in proposed MSHA penalties and $25K 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.
$28K
proposed penalties
$28K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$25K
outstanding
37 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-10-15.
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.
35.1%
significant & substantial
8.1%
high negligence or reckless
35.1%
reasonably likely or greater
56.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 13.5% low, 78.4% moderate, 8.1% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2018-10-10, 7 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
6
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (6)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2018-10-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-10-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2018-10-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2018-10-10 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.16 Cleanup Man
2017-04-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2017-04-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 0.87 0.25 Laborer, Bullgang
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. Boulder Northwest Sand & Gravel, LLC 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2021 4
2020 6
2019 5
2018 6
2017 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Boulder Northwest Sand & Gravel sits in Snohomish County, Washington, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Snohomish County, Washington · Population 834,648
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$107,982
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
2021 Q1 2,312 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,138 12 8 5612.7
2020 Q3 2,672 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,363 8 1 2378.8
2020 Q1 2,924 4 1 1368.0
2019 Q4 1,403 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,793 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,303 2 0 868.4
Show 9 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2019 Q1 1,922 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 2,654 3 0 1130.4
2018 Q3 2,033 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,346 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,539 6 3 3898.6
2017 Q4 2,687 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,260 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,157 2 0 927.2
2017 Q1 1,768 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2020 · 1 incident