Mining Incidents

Elwha Gravel Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Eben Twaddle
Port Angeles, Skagit County, WA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4503770

Elwha Gravel Pit has $9K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
53
citations
9
significant & substantial
$8,954
proposed penalties
$8,954
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
26
inspections on record
460
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: 460 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Elwha Gravel Pit has $9K 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.
$9K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
46 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-01-06.
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 1,043 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 855 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 815 2 0 2454.0
2025 Q1 1,250 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,221 4 0 3276.0
2024 Q3 1,467 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,480 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,106 0 0 0.0
Show 27 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 970 4 1 4123.7
2023 Q3 1,284 1 1 778.8
2023 Q2 1,181 7 0 5927.2
2023 Q1 1,913 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,252 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 544 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,046 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 768 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 791 1 0 1264.2
2021 Q3 570 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,942 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,203 2 0 1662.5
2020 Q4 1,309 2 0 1527.9
2020 Q3 772 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 772 11 6 14248.7
2020 Q1 998 1 0 1002.0
2019 Q4 1,274 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 753 2 0 2656.0
2019 Q2 1,342 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,345 1 0 743.5
2018 Q4 878 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 634 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 892 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,044 5 0 4789.3
2017 Q4 835 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 598 2 0 3344.5
2017 Q2 725 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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