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CEMEX - MARICOPA: 60 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Cemex S A
Phoenix, Pinal County, AZ  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0202355

CEMEX - MARICOPA has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
1987–2005
Latest incident
May 2005
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
60
citations
15
significant & substantial
$15,774
proposed penalties
$7,734
paid to date
49% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $8,040 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See CEMEX Construction Materials South LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
32
inspections on record
442
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: 442 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

CEMEX - MARICOPA has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$16K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
59 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $8K in penalties contested before the Commission, $60 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2013-04-11.
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.
25.0%
significant & substantial
6.7%
high negligence or reckless
25.0%
reasonably likely or greater
58.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 20.0% low, 73.3% moderate, 6.7% 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.
2 citations taken to the federal commission · 3% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 50%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 50%
0%
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 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
99%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$8K proposed, $60 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 2008-02-26.
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 2008-490M Vacate Zielinski 2009 $7K → $0
WEST 2006-490M Settlement Lesnick 2007 $700 → $60
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: 2010-05-27, 16 years ago
67%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
5
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz32 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (5)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2006-04-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.55 0.51 1.08 Laborer, Bullgang
2006-02-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.82 0.51 1.61 Laborer, Bullgang
2010-05-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-05-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2006-02-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.27 0.69 0.39 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.

CEMEX - MARICOPA recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2008.

Injury rate, 2008
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.15 and the all-US-mining average was 3.61 cases per 100 workers.
In Arizona, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.99 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2008 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2007 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2006 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2005 * 3.28 3.28 0.000
2004 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 0.00 0.00 0.000
2002 0.00 0.00 0.000
2001 1.69 1.69 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Tanner Companies 1987 to 1987
  2. Tanner Companies 1987 to 1994
  3. United Metro Materials Inc 1994 to 2002
  4. Rinker Materials Western Inc. 2002 to 2004
  5. RINKER MATERIALS 2004 to 2008
  6. CEMEX Construction Materials South LLC 2008 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2015 0
2014 5
2013 5
2012 6
2011 5
2010 5
2009 5
2008 11
2007 13
2006 18
2005 28
2004 51
2003 44
2002 42
2001 46
2000 45
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

CEMEX - MARICOPA sits in Pinal County, Arizona, 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.
Pinal County, Arizona · Population 449,219
0.8%
Mining share of county employment
$77,588
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
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 2,037 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,373 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 2,138 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 2,458 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 2,769 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,460 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,926 2 1 1038.4
Show 53 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2013 Q1 2,172 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,751 2 0 727.0
2012 Q3 2,810 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 3,165 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,661 2 2 1204.1
2011 Q4 2,344 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,517 1 0 659.2
2011 Q2 4,205 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 2,630 3 3 1140.7
2010 Q4 3,295 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 4,307 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,105 1 0 905.0
2010 Q1 1,380 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,848 2 1 1082.3
2009 Q3 2,113 1 0 473.3
2009 Q2 1,848 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 2,174 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 4,245 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 6,429 2 0 311.1
2008 Q2 5,191 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 5,479 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 7,347 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 6,760 1 1 147.9
2007 Q2 6,288 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 6,394 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 6,808 2 1 293.8
2006 Q3 9,137 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,642 5 0 3045.1
2006 Q1 8,285 5 0 603.5
2005 Q4 9,827 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 11,568 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 18,984 1 0 52.7
2005 Q1 20,530 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 24,264 3 0 123.6
2004 Q3 31,423 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 25,086 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 33,409 3 0 89.8
2003 Q4 24,719 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 26,777 4 2 149.4
2003 Q2 28,861 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 29,461 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 23,327 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 25,411 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 29,324 5 1 170.5
2002 Q1 27,398 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 30,447 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 29,620 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 28,132 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 30,365 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 28,818 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 28,032 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 26,918 15 3 557.2
2000 Q1 22,946 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2005 · 1 incident

May 3, 2005 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman OTHER
RINKER MATERIALS · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

While cleaning around wet plant - something bit EE on right thigh.

2001 · 1 incident

August 25, 2001 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner ELECTRICAL
United Metro Materials Inc · Contact with electrical current

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO FLIP 480 BOX SWITCH TO OPEN POSITION WHEN METAL MET ELECTRICLA LEADS CAUSING FLASH BACK.

1994 · 1 incident

September 23, 1994 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
United Metro Materials Inc · Fall from machine

EE JUMPED OUT OF THE CAB OF HAUL TRUCK ADN STRAO STRAINED LOWER BACK.

1987 · 1 incident

July 8, 1987 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Tanner Companies · Fall to the walkway or working surface

CLAIMANT WAS WO9KING ON CONVEYOR BELT SLIPPED & LOST FOOTING R ESULTED IN TWISTED KNEE