Mining Incidents

Double Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Bill Buxton; Larry Brown
Hot Springs, AR, Garland County, AR  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0301829

Double has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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
21
citations
13
significant & substantial
$10,335
proposed penalties
$8,009
paid to date
77% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,326 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
18
inspections on record
124
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: 124 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Double has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
21 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-12-29.
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
2004 Q2 18 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 182 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,352 1 0 739.6
2003 Q3 3,059 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 2,219 2 1 901.3
2002 Q4 2,667 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 4,884 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,780 0 0 0.0
Show 6 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2002 Q1 478 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 2,607 12 8 4603.0
2001 Q3 2,587 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 2,336 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 473 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,158 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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