Coyote Blossom Mine: 40 MSHA citations
Metal/Non-Metal
Coyote Blossom Mine has $8K 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
- 5
- Years on record
- 2014–2015
- Latest incident
- Jul 2015
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2014
8
significant & substantial
$8,266
proposed penalties
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 247 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
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A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
Most recent order: 2014-03-25.
On record since 2014.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
Coyote Blossom Mine has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
39 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $100 in penalties contested before the Commission, $100 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2015-09-21.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
20.5%
significant & substantial
17.9%
high negligence or reckless
20.5%
reasonably likely or greater
69.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 46.2% low, 35.9% moderate, 17.9% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
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Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
1
citations taken to the federal commission · 3% of citations on record
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$100 proposed, $100 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2015-01-30.
Contested penalties
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A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
| Docket |
Decision |
Judge |
Year |
Proposed / upheld |
| WEST 2015-0354 |
Settlement |
Miller |
2015 |
$100 → $100 |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Health sampling
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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)
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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: 2015-03-03, 11 years ago
Most sampled contaminants
- Respirable dust, <.1mg2
- Diesel particulate (total carbon)1
Show the individual readings (5)
| Date |
Contaminant |
Concentration |
Limit |
Conc / limit |
Occupation |
| 2015-03-03 |
TC from EC @ 160 |
0 |
160 |
0.00 |
Supervisor, Co. Official |
| 2015-03-03 |
EC @ 160 |
3 |
160 |
0.02 |
Supervisor, Co. Official |
| 2015-03-03 |
TC @ 160 |
32 |
160 |
0.20 |
Supervisor, Co. Official |
| 2014-11-18 |
Respirable dust, <.1mg |
0 |
|
|
Ball Mill Operator |
| 2014-11-18 |
Respirable dust, <.1mg |
0 |
|
|
Lab Technician |
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.
Coyote Blossom Mine recorded 9.26 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2014.
Injury rate, 2014
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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.
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.39 and the all-US-mining average was 2.93 cases per 100 workers.
In Nevada, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.73 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.
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.
Workforce and production
| Year |
Employees |
| 2015 |
13 |
| 2014 |
34 |
| 2013 |
15 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Coyote Blossom Mine sits in Clark County, Nevada, where the Census mining category is 0.2% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.
Clark County, Nevada · Population 2,293,764
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$73,845
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
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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 |
| 2015 Q3 |
1,176 |
1 |
0 |
850.3 |
| 2015 Q2 |
6,636 |
3 |
0 |
452.1 |
| 2015 Q1 |
6,410 |
2 |
0 |
312.0 |
| 2014 Q4 |
16,825 |
14 |
1 |
832.1 |
| 2014 Q3 |
20,442 |
2 |
0 |
97.8 |
| 2014 Q2 |
16,315 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2014 Q1 |
11,181 |
10 |
4 |
894.4 |
| 2013 Q4 |
6,186 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
5 on file
2015 · 2 incidents
While exiting the office trailer, miner had her reading glasses on and hit the second step with only half of her foot causing her to fall out the door landing on her left knee, causing a laceration.
February 4, 2015
NV · Metal/Non-Metal
miner, nec
MACHINERY
Nevada Milling & Mining, LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects
Miner was lifting a jackleg and felt a burning pain in his belly button.
2014 · 3 incidents
September 15, 2014
NV · Metal/Non-Metal
maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech
HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Nevada Milling & Mining, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
While removing the bolt of the cutting edge of a skid steer the nut came off, the bolt head drooped out of the hole, hitting my finger cutting it.
while scaling - rock came out of the back - hit the miner's hard hat and caused two lacerations on his forehead.
March 3, 2014
NV · Metal/Non-Metal
maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Nevada Milling & Mining, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Miner twisted ankle while changing oil in generator. Stated that it wasn't bad enough to go to doctor. Went to Dr. after three weeks. Told to take ibuprofen and apply cold. went for MRI - showing nothing wrong. Told to exercise ankle - went for new MRI - shows a floating bone - put in boot and light duty.