Mining Incidents

Elmer City Pit: 35 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Tillmans Inc. · Surface
Coulee, Okanogan County, WA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4503479

Elmer City Pit has $4K 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 2001
35
citations
8
significant & substantial
$3,986
proposed penalties
$3,986
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
31
inspections on record
368
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: 368 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Elmer City Pit has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
35 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-03-19.
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.
22.9%
significant & substantial
2.9%
high negligence or reckless
22.9%
reasonably likely or greater
45.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 2.9% none, 17.1% low, 77.1% moderate, 2.9% 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: 2009-11-03, 16 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2009-11-03 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.21 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-08-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 0.7 0.23 Front-end Loader 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. Tillmans Inc. 2001 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 2
2012 2
2011 2
2010 2
2009 2
2008 2
2007 2
2006 2
2005 2
2004 2
2003 2
2002 2
2001 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Elmer City Pit sits in Okanogan County, Washington, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Okanogan County, Washington · Population 42,811
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$60,293
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
2026 Q2 85 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1,364 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 56 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 72 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 38 4 0 105263.2
2024 Q4 16 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 108 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 64 0 0 0.0
Show 92 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q1 38 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 66 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 185 1 0 5405.4
2023 Q2 92 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 48 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 90 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 180 2 1 11111.1
2022 Q2 320 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 235 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 328 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 270 1 0 3703.7
2021 Q1 422 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 330 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 342 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 308 1 0 3246.8
2019 Q4 389 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 340 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 341 1 0 2932.6
2019 Q1 162 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 296 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 227 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 334 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 278 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 394 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 351 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 372 3 0 8064.5
2017 Q1 94 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 278 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 376 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 252 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 146 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 300 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 420 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 486 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 114 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 412 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 507 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 451 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 235 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 383 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 526 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 515 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 403 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 407 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 363 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 290 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 219 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 272 3 1 11029.4
2011 Q3 474 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 360 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 230 2 2 8695.7
2010 Q3 409 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 404 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 290 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 488 7 4 14344.3
2009 Q3 427 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 438 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 44 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 414 1 0 2415.5
2008 Q3 441 1 0 2267.6
2008 Q2 418 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 384 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 428 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 584 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 715 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 448 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 342 2 0 5848.0
2006 Q3 682 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 666 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 532 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 295 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 789 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 579 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 409 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 523 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 432 3 0 6944.4
2004 Q2 526 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 329 1 0 3039.5
2003 Q4 544 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 687 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 638 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 380 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 572 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 493 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 520 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 139 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 429 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 801 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 825 2 0 2424.2

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.