Mining Incidents

Chulitna Screener: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

State of Alaska Department of Transportation · Surface
Controlled by State Of Alaska
Trapper Creek, Matanuska-Susitna County, AK  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 5001511

MSHA record for Chulitna Screener (mine ID 5001511). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1993
Latest incident
May 1993
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
6
inspections on record
45
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: 45 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, 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: 2019-07-10, 7 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2019-07-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 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. Alaska Dept/Transportation & Pulic Facilities 1986 to 2018
  2. State of Alaska Department of Transportation 2018 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Chulitna Screener sits in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, where the Census mining category is 3.1% 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.
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska · Population 110,677
3.1%
Mining share of county employment
$90,625
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1993 · 1 incident

May 12, 1993 AK · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Alaska Dept/Transportation & Pulic Facilities · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

SMASHED FINGER WHILE RUNNING THE SCREEN PLANT. INJURY REQUIRED 8 STITCHES.