Mining Incidents

Drake Construction Portable Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Toby W Drake
Kotzebue, Northwest Arctic County, AK  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 5001946

Drake Construction Portable has $1K 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
2
Years on record
2024
Latest incident
Jul 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2011
10
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,169
proposed penalties
$1,169
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
13
inspections on record
176
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: 176 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Drake Construction Portable has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
10 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-31.
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
2025 Q4 0 0 0
2025 Q3 0 1 0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 1 0
2024 Q3 1,075 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,758 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
Show 41 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 870 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 0 1 0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 3,560 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 0 0 0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 300 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,572 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 846 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 6,774 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,330 1 0 300.3
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 688 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 300 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 440 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 0 0 0
2015 Q3 703 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 112 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 54 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,578 1 0 387.9
2014 Q2 1,670 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 0 0 0
2013 Q3 310 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,882 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q3 2,700 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 486 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 0 0 0
2011 Q3 1,792 5 1 2790.2
2011 Q2 289 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2024 · 2 incidents

July 23, 2024 AK · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Drake Construction Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee was helping repair a broken conveyor belt splice. Employee was pulling on the conveyor belt and felt a pain in left shoulder.

July 17, 2024 AK · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Drake Construction Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was trimming a conveyor belt while doing a Flexco Super Screw splice with a utility knife when it slipped cutting EE's left ring finger. The cut required 2 stitches.

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