Mining Incidents

Ellwood Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Goleta, Santa Barbara County, CA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0403698

Ellwood Pit has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1988
Latest incident
Mar 1988
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2011
18
citations
3
significant & substantial
$11,898
proposed penalties
$7,398
paid to date
62% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,500 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
30
inspections on record
410
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: 410 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Ellwood Pit has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$12K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
17 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-18.
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 1,560 1 0 641.0
2025 Q3 1,480 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,578 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,588 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,624 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,504 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,552 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,600 0 0 0.0
Show 52 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,394 1 0 717.4
2023 Q3 1,526 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,521 1 0 657.5
2023 Q1 1,415 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,574 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,640 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,558 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,496 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,544 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,596 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,560 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,572 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,479 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,590 1 0 628.9
2020 Q2 1,616 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,608 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,552 1 0 644.3
2019 Q3 1,618 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,544 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,536 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,484 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,568 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,496 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,544 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,552 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,552 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,504 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,576 1 0 634.5
2016 Q4 1,480 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,608 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,520 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,600 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,584 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,584 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,552 3 2 1933.0
2015 Q1 1,512 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,496 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,568 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,488 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,520 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 2,032 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,600 2 1 1250.0
2013 Q2 1,440 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,552 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 3,696 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 3,560 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 3,472 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 3,576 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 3,848 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 3,080 7 0 2272.7
2011 Q2 2,762 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 2,817 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1988 · 1 incident

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