Mining Incidents

Calder Metal/Non-Metal

Thorne Bay, Ketchikan Gateway County, AK  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 5001639

Calder has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2014
Latest incident
Dec 2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2012
30
citations
4
significant & substantial
$3,887
proposed penalties
$3,839
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $48 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
19
inspections on record
291
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: 291 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Calder has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
29 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-04-29.
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 Q4 1,836 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,129 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,797 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,328 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,160 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,984 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,648 5 0 1888.2
2024 Q1 1,856 0 0 0.0
Show 52 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,736 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,849 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,568 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,104 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,216 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,544 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,120 1 0 892.9
2022 Q1 1,376 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,512 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,632 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,416 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,392 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,432 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,592 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,344 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,656 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,312 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,544 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,416 2 0 1412.4
2019 Q1 1,504 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,368 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,552 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 920 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,024 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 896 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 512 2 0 3906.2
2017 Q2 896 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 536 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 448 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 776 9 1 11597.9
2016 Q2 1,064 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 744 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 771 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 536 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,592 2 0 1256.3
2015 Q1 1,008 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 700 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,560 4 2 2564.1
2014 Q2 4,640 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 200 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 124 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,600 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 11,040 2 1 181.2
2013 Q1 75 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q3 8,450 2 0 236.7
2012 Q2 2,060 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 0 0 0
2000 Q3 0 0 0
2000 Q2 0 0 0
2000 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2014 · 1 incident

December 22, 2014 AK · Metal/Non-Metal plumber, pipefitter, millwright MACHINERY
Columbia River Carbonates · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Miner is off-season caretaker at mine site. He was working in shop at work bench. There were various tools on the bench, one of them a 4" angle grinder. He was attempting to clear some room on the bench and went to move the grinder. It came in contact with some other object and energized the grinder, pulling his right thumb into the guard on the grinder and cutting his thumb.

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