Mining Incidents

Elk Pit: 1 MSHA citation Metal/Non-Metal

Ravensdale, King County, WA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4500256

Elk Pit has $60 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 2004
1
citations
0
significant & substantial
$60
proposed penalties
$60
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
9
inspections on record
83
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: 83 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 Pit has $60 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.
$60
proposed penalties
$60
current assessed
$60
paid to date
$0
outstanding
1 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-04-13.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
100.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2004-04-13, 22 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2004-04-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Moulden & Sons' Inc 1950 to 1989
  2. Stowe Construction Inc 1989 to 2003
  3. Mutual Materials Company 2003 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2010 1
2009 1
2008 1
2007 2
2006 1
2005 2
2004 1
2003 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Elk Pit sits in King County, Washington, where the Census mining category is 0.0% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
King County, Washington · Population 2,262,713
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$122,148
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
2010 Q3 22 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 10 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 22 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 24 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 25 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 24 0 0 0.0
Show 22 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q3 15 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 32 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 48 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 52 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 180 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 176 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 62 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 92 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 66 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 35 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 5 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 15 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 69 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 138 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 12 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 22 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 41 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 42 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 15 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 18 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 360 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 17 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.