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: 120 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Equity Mine has $700 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.
$700
proposed penalties
$700
current assessed
$700
paid to date
$0
outstanding
7 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-12-05.
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.
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: 2012-08-15, 14 years ago
100%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
3
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Diesel particulate (total carbon)11 over
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (5)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2012-02-16
TC @ 160
243
160
1.52
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2012-08-15
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.16
Drill Operator, Rotary
2012-08-15
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.25
Mucking Mach. Operator
2012-02-16
TC from EC @ 160
128
160
0.80
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2012-02-16
EC @ 160
98
160
0.61
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2014
3
2013
2
2012
6
2011
8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Equity Mine sits in Mineral County, Colorado, 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.
Mineral County, Colorado · Population 799
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$52,455
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
Employee was re-assembling a core tube, when he was inserting the second piece of the the split tube it was unusually tight fitting. Employee then tried to push the split in with his right hand while wearing wet gloves. His hand slipped and his right wrist struck the edge of the split tube causing a laceration to the wrist.
March 28, 2012CO · Metal/Non-Metalrock drillerMACHINERY
The driller was assisting his helper to lower a tube. Driller slipped and stuck his hand out to catch himself. He caught the ring finger on his left hand. It cut just a little less than a quarter inch of the finger off.
February 7, 2012CO · Metal/Non-Metalassayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer managementSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Employee was carrying a cooler with 4 one gal water samples into the office wearing felt soled waders. He slipped and fell on his back onto the concrete floor. He suffered a contusion of the back with pain of 7/10 and stiffness for several days. He was restricted to lifting no more than 10lbs for 4 days. There was no lost time due to injury.
1987 · 1 incident
June 10, 1987CO · Metal/Non-Metalmine manager, mine foreman, mine ownerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EMPLOYEE WAS LO5DING A DRIFT ROUND.I NAME HAD JUST INSERTED THE PRIMER STICK IN A HOLE ABOUT EYE LEVEL AND WAS PUSHING THE PRIMER STICK INTO HOLE WITH A WOODEN LOADING STICK,AS HIS RIGHT HAND PUSHED LOADING 8TICK INTO THE ABOVE THE HOLE SLICED ACROSS THE BACK OF HIS HAND.