Mining Incidents

Cooks Valley Portable Crusher Metal/Non-Metal

Mercer Fraser Co · Surface
cooks valley, Humboldt County, CA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0405219

Cooks Valley Portable Crusher has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2008
Latest incident
Aug 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
40
citations
10
significant & substantial
$4,633
proposed penalties
$4,289
paid to date
93% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $344 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
13
inspections on record
207
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: 207 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Cooks Valley Portable Crusher has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 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
38 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-09-13.
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
2010 Q4 799 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,049 3 1 2859.9
2010 Q2 10 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 32 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 333 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 91 5 1 54945.1
2009 Q2 1,180 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 549 0 0 0.0
Show 36 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q4 439 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,013 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 524 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 32 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 936 2 0 2136.8
2007 Q3 390 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 312 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 160 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 978 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,118 5 1 4472.3
2006 Q2 40 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 152 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 267 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 525 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 609 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 1 0
2004 Q4 68 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 90 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 710 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 443 1 0 2257.3
2003 Q4 99 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 383 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 558 1 1 1792.1
2003 Q1 109 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 431 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 373 5 3 13404.8
2002 Q2 0 0 0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 198 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,126 4 2 3552.4
2001 Q2 216 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 80 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 111 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 273 13 1 47619.0
2000 Q2 476 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2008 · 1 incident

August 5, 2008 CA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mercer Fraser Co · Struck by falling object

Taking the crusher screen deck apart, he kicked the leg holding the screen deck out. The leg fell and smashed his big toe on his right foot.

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