Daly Pit: 1 recorded fatality
Metal/Non-Metal
Jim's Water Service, Inc.
· Surface
MSHA Mine ID: 4801610
Daly Pit has $40K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 1
- Years on record
- 2002
- Latest incident
- Jan 2002
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
9
significant & substantial
$39,761
proposed penalties
71% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $11,500 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
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: 365 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Daly Pit has $40K 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.
25 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $36K in penalties contested before the Commission, $25K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2002-01-24.
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.
36.0%
significant & substantial
12.0%
high negligence or reckless
32.0%
reasonably likely or greater
44.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 88.0% moderate, 12.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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 |
| WEST20030170M |
Settlement |
Zielinski |
2003 |
$36K → $25K |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
-
Jim's Water Service, Inc.
2002 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
| Year |
Employees |
| 2002 |
1 |
| 2001 |
3 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Daly Pit sits in Campbell County, Wyoming, where the Census mining category is 17.6% 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.
Campbell County, Wyoming · Population 47,018
17.6%
Mining share of county employment
$95,253
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 |
| 2002 Q3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2002 Q2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2002 Q1 |
375 |
26 |
9 |
69333.3 |
| 2001 Q4 |
536 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2001 Q3 |
348 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2001 Q2 |
543 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
Fatalities at this mine
1 recorded
January 12, 2002
WY · Metal/Non-Metal
mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner
Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Unknown operator · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
MECHANICAL BRAKE FAILURE RESULTING FROM AN ENGINE STALL CAUSED THE 966C FRONT-END LOADER TO ROLL BACKWARDS DOWN THE STOCKPILE RAMP INTO THE VICTIM AND HIS 2001 DODGE PICK-UP. THIS CAUSED THE V ICTIM TO BE CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TWO VEHICLES RESULTING IN FATAL INTERNAL INJURIES. OUR INVESTIGATION IS STILL PENDING ON WHAT CAUSED ANY BRAKE FAILURE.