Mining Incidents

Boulder Northwest Sand & Gravel 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.
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.
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

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