Mining Incidents

Deer Creek Plant: 85 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by John H Franklin
vina, Tehama County, CA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0405331

Deer Creek Plant has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
85
citations
15
significant & substantial
$7,510
proposed penalties
$7,510
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
52
inspections on record
535
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: 535 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Deer Creek Plant has $8K 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
84 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-02.
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.
17.6%
significant & substantial
3.5%
high negligence or reckless
17.6%
reasonably likely or greater
54.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.9% low, 90.6% moderate, 3.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
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)
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: 2021-06-23, 5 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
9
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz3
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (9)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2021-06-23 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 10 0.01 Laborer, Bullgang
2020-02-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-06-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-06-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2009-10-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.6 0.33 Crusher Oper/Worker
2009-10-07 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.19 Bulldozer Operator
2002-06-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Engineer
2002-06-26 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.19 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-06-26 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 Bulldozer Operator
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.
Ownership history
  1. Deer Creek Rock 1997 to 2005
  2. Franklin Construction Inc 2006 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 1
2024 2
2023 1
2022 1
2021 2
2020 1
2019 1
2018 2
2017 3
2016 3
2015 3
2014 2
2013 3
2012 2
2011 2
2010 2
2009 2
2008 3
2007 3
2006 3
2005 4
2004 3
2003 3
2002 2
2001 2
2000 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Deer Creek Plant sits in Tehama County, California, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Tehama County, California · Population 65,520
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$61,834
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, 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
2026 Q2 382 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 15 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 77 1 0 12987.0
2025 Q2 45 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 13 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 777 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 110 0 0 0.0
Show 96 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 54 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 18 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 760 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 107 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 17 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 38 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 0 0 0
2022 Q1 89 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 22 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 531 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 72 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 54 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 70 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 316 1 0 3164.6
2019 Q4 150 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 10 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 46 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 11 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 824 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 694 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 130 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 346 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,327 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,480 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 245 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 64 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 668 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,412 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 98 3 1 30612.2
2016 Q1 50 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,000 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,328 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 180 2 0 11111.1
2015 Q1 41 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 654 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,197 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 466 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 416 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 858 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 913 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 986 3 0 3042.6
2013 Q1 120 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 431 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,228 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 900 1 0 1111.1
2012 Q1 547 2 0 3656.3
2011 Q4 903 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,200 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 979 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 869 2 1 2301.5
2010 Q4 1,354 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,283 3 1 2338.3
2010 Q2 986 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 408 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 608 4 0 6578.9
2009 Q3 581 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 484 2 0 4132.2
2009 Q1 21 1 0 47619.0
2008 Q4 171 1 0 5848.0
2008 Q3 1,138 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,380 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,494 1 0 669.3
2007 Q4 1,768 2 0 1131.2
2007 Q3 1,716 4 0 2331.0
2007 Q2 1,750 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,451 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 944 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,456 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,122 3 0 2673.8
2006 Q1 884 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 880 12 1 13636.4
2005 Q3 1,320 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,320 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,320 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,620 1 0 617.3
2004 Q2 1,120 4 2 3571.4
2004 Q1 630 12 3 19047.6
2003 Q4 1,500 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,500 12 5 8000.0
2003 Q2 1,000 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 750 3 1 4000.0
2002 Q4 1,000 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,000 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,000 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 580 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,000 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,000 2 0 2000.0
2001 Q1 500 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 850 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,000 3 0 3000.0
2000 Q2 500 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 500 0 0 0.0

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.