Mining Incidents

Comstock Joint Venture: 7 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Art Wilson Co · Surface
Controlled by H I G Capital LLC
Gold Hill, Storey County, NV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2602558

Comstock Joint Venture has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $685 in penalties since 2005.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
—
Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
7
citations
2
significant & substantial
$685
proposed penalties
$685
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date. The remaining $0 was reduced, settled, contested or is still owed.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
3
inspections on record
30
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: 30 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Comstock Joint Venture has $685 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.
$685
proposed penalties
$685
current assessed
$685
paid to date
$0
outstanding
7 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2005-02-16.
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.
28.6%
significant & substantial
14.3%
high negligence or reckless
28.6%
reasonably likely or greater
42.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 85.7% moderate, 14.3% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Art Wilson Co 2005 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2005 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Comstock Joint Venture sits in Storey County, Nevada, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Storey County, Nevada · Population 4,139
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$96,000
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; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. 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 Q1 1,140 7 2 6140.4

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.