A hand held electric grinding wheel kicked back into the operators face as he was preparing an area for welding. He received a severe cut to his chin/lip and two damaged teeth.
Dickey Pit Metal/Non-Metal
Dickey Pit has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 14
- Years on record
- 1995–2011
- Latest incident
- Sep 2011
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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.Dickey Pit has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 4 contested dockets.
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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.ⓘ
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.| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 Q3 | 210 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q2 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q1 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q4 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q3 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q2 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q4 | 1,037 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 Q3 | 1,984 | 8 | 1 | 4032.3 |
| 2012 Q2 | 694 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2011 Q4 | 2,192 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2011 Q3 | 3,553 | 9 | 2 | 2533.1 |
| 2011 Q2 | 1,654 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2011 Q1 | 509 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2010 Q4 | 1,587 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2010 Q3 | 2,970 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2010 Q2 | 2,641 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2010 Q1 | 1,138 | 1 | 0 | 878.7 |
| 2009 Q4 | 2,593 | 4 | 1 | 1542.6 |
| 2009 Q3 | 6,449 | 3 | 2 | 465.2 |
| 2009 Q2 | 3,633 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2009 Q1 | 378 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2008 Q4 | 2,400 | 4 | 0 | 1666.7 |
| 2008 Q3 | 4,981 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2008 Q2 | 4,311 | 4 | 1 | 927.9 |
| 2008 Q1 | 1,580 | 5 | 1 | 3164.6 |
| 2007 Q4 | 3,247 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2007 Q3 | 4,768 | 2 | 2 | 419.5 |
| 2007 Q2 | 3,514 | 8 | 4 | 2276.6 |
| 2007 Q1 | 1,600 | 10 | 3 | 6250.0 |
| 2006 Q4 | 1,886 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2006 Q3 | 2,731 | 5 | 1 | 1830.8 |
| 2006 Q2 | 2,287 | 3 | 0 | 1311.8 |
| 2006 Q1 | 1,310 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2005 Q4 | 1,992 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2005 Q3 | 4,011 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2005 Q2 | 2,429 | 2 | 2 | 823.4 |
| 2005 Q1 | 1,279 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2004 Q4 | 1,800 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2004 Q3 | 2,737 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2004 Q2 | 2,588 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2004 Q1 | 1,203 | 3 | 2 | 2493.8 |
| 2003 Q4 | 1,697 | 2 | 0 | 1178.6 |
| 2003 Q3 | 2,616 | 2 | 0 | 764.5 |
| 2003 Q2 | 2,180 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2003 Q1 | 1,210 | 1 | 0 | 826.4 |
| 2002 Q4 | 3,571 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2002 Q3 | 2,716 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2002 Q2 | 1,986 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2002 Q1 | 995 | 1 | 0 | 1005.0 |
| 2001 Q4 | 352 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2001 Q3 | 3,396 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2001 Q2 | 1,096 | 6 | 1 | 5474.5 |
| 2001 Q1 | 232 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2000 Q4 | 1,306 | 2 | 0 | 1531.4 |
| 2000 Q3 | 3,352 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2000 Q2 | 3,214 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2000 Q1 | 1,153 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Reportable incidents
14 on file2011 · 1 incident
2008 · 1 incident
Plastic handle screw driver was hit with hammer and the end of handle exploded and struck EE in the left eye.
2007 · 1 incident
The employee was installing final insulated hangers on high voltage cable without power being turned off. Contacted old splice area, received flash burn to right hand, finger, wrist.
2004 · 1 incident
The ee mentioned was injured while making an adjustment to the fine side of the Pioneer triple rolls. A threaded hydraulic fitting apparently damaged at previous time blew out of the hydraulic adjusting ram & the hose it was attached to hit ee in the leg & blew oil into his face & right eye.
1998 · 2 incidents
HIT SHOULDER WHILE RAISING UNDER ROCK CRUSHER
HURT LOWER BACK WHILE SHOVELING ROCKS & MUD.
1997 · 4 incidents
ATTEMPTING TO BLEED AIR FROM HYDRALIC SYSTEM, VALVE WAS OPENED TOO FOR AND EE WAS STRUCK BY VALVE BLEEDER CAP AND OIL.
DROPPED PIECE OF PIPE ON HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOIVNG ROCK FROM FEEDER WITH A BAR WHEN HE FFELT A BURNIGN SENSATION IN HIS STOMACH AREA.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON A CONVEYOR BELT, WHEN HE STEPPED OFF AND TWISTED HIS KNEE. EMPLOYEE DELAYED SEEKING MEDICAL ATTENTION THINKING SORENESS WOULD GO AWAY.
1996 · 3 incidents
LIFTING COVER PLATE FRO ELECTRIC MOTOR. TORE CARTILAGE AND RIB DISLOCATION IN RT SIDE UPPER BACK.
EE WAS LIFTING SCRAP METAL OFF THE GROUND WHEN THE FELT BURNING SEVSATION IN HIS GROIN AREA. HE THOUGHT AT THE TIME IT WAS KIDNEY STONE BECAUSE HE RECENTLY HAD ONE, AND IT FELT SIMILAR. DELAYE D REPORTING DUE TO THIS .
WHILE CHECKING WATER LEVEL ON D-9 DOZER, EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND FELL BETWEEN INSIDE OF BLADE AND TRACK.
1995 · 1 incident
EMPLOYEE WAS DESCENDING DOWN THE LADDER OF THE CONE CRUSHER AND JUMPED 2 FEET. TO THE GROUND AND LANDED ON A ROCK. SPRAINING HIS LEFT KNEE RESULTING IN 6' LOST WORK DAYS.
The full compliance file on Dickey 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.