Mining Incidents

Darrel Volker Construction Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Darrel R Volker
Auburn, Nemaha County, NE  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2501224

Darrel Volker Construction has $29K 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
2005
Latest incident
Apr 2005
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
20
citations
5
significant & substantial
$29,462
proposed penalties
$22,762
paid to date
77% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $6,700 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
10
inspections on record
202
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: 202 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Darrel Volker Construction has $29K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$29K
proposed penalties
$23K
current assessed
$23K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
19 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-08-20.
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 0 0 0
2010 Q3 1,599 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,569 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 1,170 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,920 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,686 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 233 0 0 0.0
Show 15 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q4 1,387 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,421 2 0 1407.5
2008 Q2 1,184 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 34 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 614 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,357 3 0 2210.8
2007 Q2 1,338 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 251 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,135 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,198 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,072 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 578 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 420 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 2,011 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,462 15 5 10259.9

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
April 4, 2005 NE · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Darrel Volker Construction · Struck against stationary object

The victim was dumping sand and gravel into the plant grizzly with a skid loader when he over traveled the stop block. The loader rolled into the grizzly and overturned. The victim was thrown out of the loader and fatally injured.

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