Mining Incidents

Eureka Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Brandon Davis
Sumpter, Baker County, OR  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3503848

Eureka Mine has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $251 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 2017
18
citations
6
significant & substantial
$2,434
proposed penalties
$2,183
paid to date
90% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $251 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
14
inspections on record
149
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: 149 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Eureka Mine has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $251 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$251
outstanding
13 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-10-14.
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 88 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 308 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 345 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 38 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 184 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 402 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 267 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 20 0 0 0.0
Show 28 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 80 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 157 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 219 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 26 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 25 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 205 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 116 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 602 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,390 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,243 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 22 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 642 2 0 3115.3
2020 Q3 1,860 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 853 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 32 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,887 4 2 2119.8
2019 Q3 6,033 1 0 165.8
2019 Q2 3,025 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 73 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 3,104 3 1 966.5
2018 Q3 7,316 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 4,483 1 1 223.1
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 1,667 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 4,390 2 1 455.6
2017 Q2 2,870 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 3,149 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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