Mining Incidents

Cherokee Limestone Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Darrell Preston
Cherokee, Cherokee County, KS  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1401628

Cherokee Limestone Quarry 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 2005
23
citations
3
significant & substantial
$5,075
proposed penalties
$3,831
paid to date
75% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,244 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
12
inspections on record
113
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: 113 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Cherokee Limestone Quarry 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
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
21 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-09-12.
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
2012 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 473 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 455 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 463 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 372 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,174 1 0 851.8
2011 Q2 1,202 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 776 0 0 0.0
Show 29 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2010 Q4 1,018 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,012 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,081 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1,044 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 891 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 745 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 854 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 944 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 641 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,026 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,280 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 997 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,378 5 1 3628.4
2007 Q3 1,569 5 0 3186.7
2007 Q2 1,438 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,255 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,321 2 0 1514.0
2006 Q3 1,407 9 2 6396.6
2006 Q2 2,048 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 2,183 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,631 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,950 1 0 512.8
2005 Q2 2,147 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 2,184 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,836 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,743 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,549 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,165 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 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.

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