Butte Gulch
Metal/Non-Metal
Murray,
Shoshone County,
ID
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Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1002336
Butte Gulch has $15K in proposed MSHA penalties and $15K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 1
- Years on record
- 2021
- Latest incident
- Sep 2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
7
significant & substantial
$14,944
proposed penalties
0% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $14,944 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2021
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 171 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Butte Gulch has $15K in proposed MSHA penalties and $15K outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
14 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-02-16.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
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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 Q3 |
80 |
5 |
3 |
62500.0 |
Fatalities at this mine
1 recorded
Higher ground resources · Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
A visitor to the mine site was in a unauthorized area running a sluice box in a unstable trench when it collapsed and buried them. The trench was tapered and made safe to remove their body.
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