Far West Pit Metal/Non-Metal
Farwest Rock Products
· Surface
Controlled by
Lunde Baston
Missoula,
Missoula County,
MT
·
Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2402305
Far West Pit has $21K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 0
- Years on record
- —
- Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2004
106
citations
27
significant & substantial
$20,877
proposed penalties
$17,493
paid to date
84% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,384 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
31
inspections on record
370
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.Rate withheld: 370 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Far West Pit has $21K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 4 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.$21K
proposed penalties
$19K
current assessed
$17K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
89 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-07-09.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
See also
the operator's enforcement record
Quarterly safety rates
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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 | 110 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q2 | 125 | 3 | 2 | 24000.0 |
| 2025 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024 Q4 | 160 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q3 | 105 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q2 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q1 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q4 | 140 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Q3 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q2 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q1 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2022 Q2 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q1 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2021 Q3 | 112 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q2 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q1 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q4 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q3 | 126 | 7 | 0 | 55555.6 |
| 2020 Q2 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q1 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q4 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q3 | 104 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q2 | 70 | 10 | 7 | 142857.1 |
| 2019 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2018 Q3 | 40 | 8 | 2 | 200000.0 |
| 2018 Q2 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2017 Q4 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q3 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q2 | 200 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q1 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q4 | 30 | 20 | 2 | 666666.7 |
| 2016 Q3 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q2 | 120 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q1 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q4 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 700000.0 |
| 2015 Q3 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q2 | 480 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q1 | 360 | 2 | 1 | 5555.6 |
| 2014 Q4 | 480 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q3 | 480 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q2 | 480 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q1 | 480 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q4 | 575 | 6 | 1 | 10434.8 |
| 2013 Q3 | 915 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q2 | 682 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q1 | 500 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q4 | 360 | 4 | 0 | 11111.1 |
| 2012 Q3 | 770 | 15 | 5 | 19480.5 |
| 2012 Q2 | 610 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q1 | 260 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2011 Q4 | 415 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2011 Q3 | 410 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2011 Q2 | 420 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2011 Q1 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2010 Q4 | 200 | 8 | 1 | 40000.0 |
| 2010 Q3 | 360 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2005 Q2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2005 Q1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 500000.0 |
| 2004 Q4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2004 Q3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2004 Q2 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 30303.0 |
| 2003 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2002 Q4 | 700 | 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 Far West Pit
A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.