Mining Incidents

Dunstone Rock Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Robert J Hammett
Oroville, CA, Butte County, CA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0405372

Dunstone Rock Quarry has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K 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 2000
77
citations
9
significant & substantial
$8,794
proposed penalties
$4,948
paid to date
56% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,846 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
48
inspections on record
420
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: 420 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Dunstone Rock Quarry has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K 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.
$9K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$4K
outstanding
77 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-09.
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 Q3 390 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 497 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 315 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 225 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 236 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 315 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 236 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 236 0 0 0.0
Show 73 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 486 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 486 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 315 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 315 9 4 28571.4
2022 Q3 634 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 290 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 308 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 275 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 299 5 0 16722.4
2021 Q2 308 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 325 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 343 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 375 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 287 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 317 5 0 15772.9
2019 Q4 325 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 355 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 376 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 327 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 356 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 299 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 299 3 0 10033.4
2018 Q1 387 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 220 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 392 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 221 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 362 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 251 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 312 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 288 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 288 2 0 6944.4
2015 Q4 285 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 385 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 407 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 415 3 0 7228.9
2014 Q4 420 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 347 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 325 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 350 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 312 1 0 3205.1
2013 Q3 252 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 295 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 275 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 203 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 275 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 209 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 250 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 280 1 0 3571.4
2011 Q3 210 4 1 19047.6
2011 Q2 145 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 0 1 0
2010 Q3 15 8 0 533333.3
2009 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 146 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 87 2 0 22988.5
2008 Q1 322 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,274 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,804 7 3 3880.3
2007 Q2 2,282 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,555 5 0 3215.4
2006 Q4 1,808 1 0 553.1
2006 Q3 1,456 3 0 2060.4
2005 Q4 175 1 0 5714.3
2005 Q3 1,904 5 1 2626.1
2005 Q2 1,347 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,082 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,210 4 0 3305.8
2004 Q3 1,130 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,222 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 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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