Mining Incidents

Chandler Aggregates Coldwater Pl: 62 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Eric Werner; Pat Broyles
REDLANDS, Riverside County, CA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0404549

Chandler Aggregates Coldwater Pl has $11K 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
2
Years on record
1996–1998
Latest incident
Mar 1998
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
62
citations
16
significant & substantial
$10,542
proposed penalties
$10,542
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
15
inspections on record
231
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: 231 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Chandler Aggregates Coldwater Pl has $11K 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
62 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2005-03-09.
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.
25.8%
significant & substantial
21.0%
high negligence or reckless
25.8%
reasonably likely or greater
43.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 1.6% low, 77.4% moderate, 21.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2004-04-07, 22 years ago
25%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz41 over
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2003-12-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.12 0.48 2.33 Laborer, Bullgang
2004-04-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.38 1.92 0.20 Laborer, Bullgang
2004-04-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 1.26 0.17 Laborer, Bullgang
2003-12-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.62 0.82 0.76 Crusher Oper/Worker
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.

Chandler Aggregates Coldwater Pl recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2004.

Injury rate, 2004
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
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.73 and the all-US-mining average was 4.33 cases per 100 workers.
In California, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.49 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
2004 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2002 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2001 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2000 * 0.00 0.00 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. R J Noble Company 1981 to 1996
  2. Chandler Aggregates Inc 1996 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2005 12
2004 11
2003 12
2002 11
2001 11
2000 11
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Chandler Aggregates Coldwater Pl sits in Riverside County, California, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Riverside County, California · Population 2,449,909
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$89,672
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
2005 Q2 5,248 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 7,018 3 0 427.5
2004 Q4 7,948 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 8,090 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 7,556 6 1 794.1
2004 Q1 8,341 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 8,173 8 4 978.8
2003 Q3 8,417 11 4 1306.9
Show 14 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2003 Q2 7,355 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 6,569 4 0 608.9
2002 Q4 7,859 1 1 127.2
2002 Q3 7,544 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 7,836 5 1 638.1
2002 Q1 7,704 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 8,410 9 1 1070.2
2001 Q3 8,323 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 8,064 11 3 1364.1
2001 Q1 7,448 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 8,211 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 8,149 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 7,566 4 1 528.7
2000 Q1 7,785 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1998 · 1 incident

March 12, 1998 CA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Chandler Aggregates Inc · Struck by flying object

EE WAS HAMMERING A PIECE OF METAL, A CHIP FLEW INTO HIS HAND, EMBEDDING.

1996 · 1 incident

July 9, 1996 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Chandler Aggregates Inc · Fall from machine

DRIVING CRANE ON INCLINED ROAD, MOTOR STALLED, BRAKES HAD NO POWER WITHOUT ENGINE, CRANE BEGAN MOVING BACKWARDS. OPERATOR EXITED VEHICLE, STRIKING KNEE ON THE GROUND.