Mining Incidents

Elk Heights Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Eclipse LLC
Maple Valley, King County, WA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4503797

Elk Heights Pit has $409 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 2020
3
citations
0
significant & substantial
$409
proposed penalties
$409
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
11
inspections on record
105
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: 105 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Elk Heights Pit has $409 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.
$409
proposed penalties
$409
current assessed
$409
paid to date
$0
outstanding
3 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-09-18.
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 0 0
2025 Q2 575 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 487 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 368 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 576 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 636 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 692 0 0 0.0
Show 14 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 719 2 0 2781.6
2023 Q2 671 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 568 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 590 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 651 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 684 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 446 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 644 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 675 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 836 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 552 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 420 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 371 1 0 2695.4
2020 Q2 240 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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