Mining Incidents

CCI - Ontario Wash Plant: 45 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Ontario, Malheur County, OR  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3503501

CCI - Ontario Wash Plant has $5K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
45
citations
12
significant & substantial
$4,507
proposed penalties
$4,507
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
38
inspections on record
384
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: 384 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

CCI - Ontario Wash Plant has $5K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
45 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $400 in penalties contested before the Commission, $400 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-08-27.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
26.7%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
26.7%
reasonably likely or greater
68.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 31.1% low, 68.9% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
4 citations taken to the federal commission · 9% of citations on record
  • Settled 4 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$400 proposed, $400 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2008-03-31.
Contested penalties
A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
WEST 2008-766M Settlement Barbour 2008 $400 → $400
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2005-10-20, 20 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2005-10-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.64 1.15 0.56 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-09-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.75 0.86 0.87 Front-end Loader Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Clearwater Concrete Inc 2000 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 2
2024 3
2023 2
2022 3
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 2
2012 3
2011 4
2010 4
2009 2
2008 1
2007 2
2006 2
2005 2
2004 1
2003 2
2002 2
2001 2
2000 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

CCI - Ontario Wash Plant sits in Malheur County, Oregon, where the Census mining category is 0.8% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Malheur County, Oregon · Population 31,701
0.8%
Mining share of county employment
$49,902
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
2026 Q2 285 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 71 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 121 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 241 1 0 4149.4
2025 Q2 176 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 143 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 245 1 0 4081.6
Show 96 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 618 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 134 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 116 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 556 1 0 1798.6
2023 Q2 353 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 28 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 179 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 178 1 0 5618.0
2022 Q2 779 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 644 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 246 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 533 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 495 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 32 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 500 1 0 2000.0
2020 Q3 774 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 849 1 0 1177.9
2020 Q1 112 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 40 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 319 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 404 1 0 2475.2
2019 Q1 274 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 175 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 410 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 484 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 121 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 115 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 406 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 274 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 98 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 150 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 904 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 665 2 0 3007.5
2016 Q1 423 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 140 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 340 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 375 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 102 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 328 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 340 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 351 1 0 2849.0
2014 Q1 109 1 0 9174.3
2013 Q4 177 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 153 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 369 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 175 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 130 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 53 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 116 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 301 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 263 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 189 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 298 1 0 3355.7
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 23 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 360 6 0 16666.7
2010 Q2 479 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 76 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 320 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 510 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 212 3 1 14150.9
2009 Q1 170 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 85 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 155 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 638 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 4 2
2007 Q4 300 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 212 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 127 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 180 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 300 3 0 10000.0
2006 Q3 360 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 240 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 850 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 425 7 5 16470.6
2005 Q3 148 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 340 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 114 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 850 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 425 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 318 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 325 1 0 3076.9
2003 Q3 425 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 382 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 325 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 84 4 2 47619.0
2002 Q3 150 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 450 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 214 3 2 14018.7
2001 Q3 110 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 0 2 0
2001 Q1 300 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 136 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 378 0 0 0.0

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.