Mining Incidents

Burgess Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Ruby, St Clair County, MI  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2003516

Burgess Pit has $3K 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
1
Years on record
2019
Latest incident
Feb 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
22
citations
6
significant & substantial
$2,833
proposed penalties
$2,833
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
18
inspections on record
219
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: 219 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Burgess Pit has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
22 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-10-09.
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
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 31 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 12 3 0 250000.0
2024 Q3 609 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,388 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 538 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 645 2 0 3100.8
2023 Q3 1,048 0 0 0.0
Show 28 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q2 871 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,029 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,247 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,673 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,578 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 982 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,246 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,609 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,878 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 265 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 462 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,484 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 729 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 334 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,410 1 0 709.2
2019 Q3 1,622 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,838 3 0 1632.2
2019 Q1 2,266 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 2,393 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,596 3 2 1155.6
2018 Q2 1,801 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 3,380 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,384 3 1 886.5
2016 Q4 170 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,178 2 0 918.3
2016 Q2 1,530 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 576 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2019 · 1 incident

February 27, 2019 MI · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Mid Michigan Materials Burgess · Fall to the walkway or working surface

The miner was working around the screening plant and slipped on ice in a loader track. EE injured arm trying to catch self on the fall to the ground.

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