Mining Incidents

Desert Gold Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Paul E D'Alessio
Oracle, Pinal County, AZ  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0202700

Desert Gold Pit 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 2001
51
citations
17
significant & substantial
$8,362
proposed penalties
$8,362
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
25
inspections on record
250
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: 250 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Desert Gold Pit 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
50 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-11-02.
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
2011 Q2 0 0 0
2011 Q1 804 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 938 1 0 1066.1
2010 Q3 1,098 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 910 4 3 4395.6
2010 Q1 1,018 5 2 4911.6
2009 Q4 1,208 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,186 0 0 0.0
Show 38 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2009 Q2 713 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1,100 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 977 3 0 3070.6
2008 Q3 1,125 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,838 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,930 6 4 3108.8
2007 Q4 1,847 1 0 541.4
2007 Q3 1,834 5 2 2726.3
2007 Q2 2,022 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,781 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,728 1 0 578.7
2006 Q3 3,077 4 1 1300.0
2006 Q2 2,135 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 2,064 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,917 3 0 1564.9
2005 Q3 1,509 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,519 1 0 658.3
2005 Q1 1,801 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,513 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,711 3 0 1753.4
2004 Q2 1,561 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,333 1 0 750.2
2003 Q4 1,712 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 2,603 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 3,575 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 2,269 5 2 2203.6
2002 Q4 1,551 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 3,724 1 0 268.5
2002 Q2 3,675 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 4,239 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 4,529 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 3,843 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 3,356 7 3 2085.8
2001 Q1 3,098 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 3,067 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,018 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 2,024 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 2,709 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.

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The full compliance file on Desert Gold Pit

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.