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: 330 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 ISLAND PLANT has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
42 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-06-30.
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.
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: 2003-11-19, 22 years ago
4
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg3
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2003-11-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2003-11-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-11-19
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.34
Truck Driver
2003-11-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe 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.
DEER ISLAND PLANT recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2002.
Injury rate, 2002
ⓘ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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.17 and the all-US-mining average was 5.05 cases per 100 workers.
In Oregon, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.92 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.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2002 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2001 *
9.07
0.00
0.000
2000 *
26.43
17.62
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2004
9
2003
8
2002
14
2001
10
2000
11
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
DEER ISLAND PLANT sits in Columbia County, Oregon, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Columbia County, Oregon · Population 53,178
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$86,359
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
EE SAYS WHILE OPERATING A KOMATSU 500 LOADER AT JOBSITE, HE DROVE THROUGH AN UNSEEN POTHOLE. HE WAS THROWN UPWARD IN THE SEAT. HE CAME BACK DOWN AND HIS FOOT HIT THE THROTTLE, PROPELLING THE MACHINE FORWARD & THE REAR TIRE HIT THE POTHOLE & THREW HIM UPWARDS AGAIN. HIS NECK & UPPER BACK & LEFT ARM HAVE BEEN CAUSING HIM PAIN EVER SINCE.
2001 · 1 incident
May 21, 2001OR · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorDISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
LEANING DOWN LOOKING AT PIECE OF FEEDER HAD A SHARP PAIN GO THROUGH MIDSECTION AND TRIED TO STAND UP AND COULD NOT.
February 10, 2000OR · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Morse Brothers Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A 5 FOOT LONG PRY BAR TRYING TO BEND A SKIRT BOARD ON A CONVEYOR # CC2 WHEN THE PRY BAR SLIPPED OFF AND HIS THUMB WAS SMASHED BETWEEN THE HANDRAIL AND THE BAR. THOUGHT ONLY BRUISED, BUT CONTINUED TO BE PAINFUL, SAW DR. HESAID IT WAS BROKEN.
1999 · 1 incident
August 19, 1999OR · Metal/Non-Metalcrane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, riggerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE WAS INSIDE THE ENGINE HOUSE COMPARTMENT AT THE CRUSHER, HE RAISED HIS HEAD WITHOUT LOOKING UP AND HIT HIS HEAD ON A SHARP OBJECT CUTTING SCALP--STITCHES REQUIRED.
1998 · 1 incident
May 12, 1998OR · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
CLEANING VSI CRUSHER WITH FIRE HOSE, SET HOSE ONPLATFORM & THREW HOSE UP ON TOP OF VSI. BALL VALVE ON COPPER NOZZLE HIT SOMETHING, TURNED ON HOSE. OUT OF CONTROL. HOSE & NOZZLE HIT EMP IN RT E YE THEN TURNED ITSELF OFF.
EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING A TIP ON A TORCH WITH A CRESCENT WRENCH WHEN THE NUT CAM ELOOSE, THE WRENCH SLIPPED PAST AND CUT HIS FINGER RIGHT ACROSS HIS KNUCKLE.
YEMPLOYEE WAS HEPIN GTH EOPERATOR CHANGE AMAIN LINE CABLE ON THE YARDER. THE TOWER COLLAPSED AND TIPPED OVER THE YARDER. THE EMPLOYEE WAS THROWN OFF THE MACHINE AND STRUCK THE GRAVEL SURFAC E.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING MAIN LINE CABLE ON YARDER WHEN THE TOWER COLLAPSED & TIPPED THE YARDER OVER ON ITS SIDE EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK BY AN UNKNOWN OBJECT IN THE HEAD ALSO WAS THROWN OFF TE MACHIN E AS IT TIPPED OVER
September 17, 1994OR · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
WORKING ON 2ND STATION, ON 4 INCH WATER LINE TRYING TO PULL LINE BACK UP CATWALK AFTER PUTTING FITTING ON. FITTING CAME OFF AND WENT TO THE GROUND AND AT SAME TIME EE HAD TO CATCH HIMSELF FROM FALLING.
July 23, 1994OR · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)