Mining Incidents

Buckeye Hills Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by C William Nichols
Buckeye, Maricopa County, AZ  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0203209

Buckeye Hills Plant has $34K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 15 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 2008
80
citations
14
significant & substantial
$34,255
proposed penalties
$25,180
paid to date
74% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $9,075 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
31
inspections on record
340
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: 340 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Buckeye Hills Plant has $34K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 15 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.
$34K
proposed penalties
$25K
current assessed
$25K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
78 assessments are final orders; 15 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-08-27.
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
2019 Q2 1,801 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 4,907 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 4,502 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,059 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 3,875 1 0 258.1
2018 Q1 4,725 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 3,512 4 0 1139.0
2017 Q3 3,548 0 0 0.0
Show 38 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2017 Q2 4,669 3 2 642.5
2017 Q1 4,368 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 5,407 5 1 924.7
2016 Q3 6,920 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 4,716 6 3 1272.3
2016 Q1 4,044 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 4,373 7 1 1600.7
2015 Q3 4,426 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 3,454 1 0 289.5
2015 Q1 3,207 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,619 6 2 3706.0
2014 Q3 2,117 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,759 9 1 5116.5
2014 Q1 1,540 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 2,021 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,941 5 0 2576.0
2013 Q2 1,591 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 2,426 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q3 0 0 0
2012 Q2 0 1 0
2012 Q1 190 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,513 5 0 3304.7
2011 Q3 1,809 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,000 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1,143 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 555 7 1 12612.6
2010 Q3 973 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 2,640 3 1 1136.4
2010 Q1 1,341 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 2,844 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,010 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 516 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 467 3 0 6424.0
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 1,348 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,582 1 1 632.1
2008 Q1 2,133 12 1 5625.9

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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A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.