Mining Incidents

Elvira Pit Metal/Non-Metal

North Pole, Fairbanks North Star County, AK  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 5001905

Elvira Pit has $65K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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 2009
84
citations
34
significant & substantial
$64,583
proposed penalties
$61,168
paid to date
95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,415 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
18
inspections on record
272
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: 272 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Elvira Pit has $65K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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.
$65K
proposed penalties
$61K
current assessed
$61K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
82 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-06-22.
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 610 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 5,510 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 10 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,043 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,565 7 2 4472.8
2024 Q1 4 0 0 0.0
Show 54 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 4 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,615 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 0 1 0
2023 Q1 12 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 15 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 4 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,162 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 20 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 24 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,744 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,094 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 7 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 4 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 990 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,557 4 0 2569.0
2020 Q1 20 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q3 2,344 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 4,064 5 1 1230.3
2019 Q1 60 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 720 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,676 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 276 4 2 14492.8
2017 Q3 44 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 0 2 2
2017 Q1 60 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 0 0 0
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 120 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 0 0 0
2015 Q3 1,180 16 8 13559.3
2015 Q2 1,733 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 0 0 0
2014 Q3 1,289 11 5 8533.7
2014 Q2 147 3 1 20408.2
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 0 0 0
2013 Q3 3,900 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 728 2 1 2747.3
2013 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 45 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 212 3 2 14150.9
2012 Q2 148 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,265 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 139 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 728 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 5,973 5 2 837.1
2009 Q2 6,004 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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The full compliance file on Elvira Pit

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