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Fisher Industries Plant 11: 84 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Thomas G Fisher
New River, Maricopa County, AZ  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3200640

Fisher Industries Plant 11 has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Years on record
1987–2023
Latest incident
Sep 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
84
citations
13
significant & substantial
$13,473
proposed penalties
$12,612
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $861 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Fisher Sand & Gravel Co's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
35
inspections on record
425
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: 425 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘ A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2016-07-19.
On record since 2016.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Fisher Industries Plant 11 has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 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.
$13K
proposed penalties
$13K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
83 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.
Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-07-17.
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.
15.7%
significant & substantial
7.2%
high negligence or reckless
15.7%
reasonably likely or greater
51.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 6.0% low, 86.7% moderate, 7.2% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
9 citations taken to the federal commission · 11% of citations on record
  • Settled 6 · 67%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 3 · 33%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 3 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
49%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1K proposed, $733 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2018-06-06.
Contested penalties
ⓘ A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
CENT 2003-259-M Settlement Manning 2003 $993 → $500
CENT 2011-1093M Settlement Lewis 2012 $968 → $500
CENT 2017-0338 Settlement Paez 2017 $232 → $116
CENT 2018-0334 Withdrawal Manning 2018 $118 → $0
CENT 2012-693M Settlement Lesnick 2012 $117 → $117
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2013-03-27, 13 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2013-03-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.07 1.09 0.98 Crusher Oper/Worker
2013-03-27 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.15 Laborer, Bullgang
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.

Fisher Industries Plant 11 recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2024.

Injury rate, 2024
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.77 and the all-US-mining average was 2.08 cases per 100 workers.
In Arizona, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.18 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2005 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2004 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Fisher Sand & Gravel Co 1980 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 21
2025 7
2024 11
2023 8
2022 7
2021 4
2020 3
2019 3
2018 5
2017 9
2016 5
2015 2
2014 5
2013 6
2012 3
2011 4
2010 1
2009 2
2008 3
2007 6
2006 4
2005 8
2004 11
2003 12
2002 6
2001 2
2000 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Fisher Industries Plant 11 sits in Maricopa County, Arizona, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Maricopa County, Arizona · Population 4,491,987
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$85,518
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
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2026 Q2 7,820 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 4,151 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 0 0 0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 1,844 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,228 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,298 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 5,671 10 0 1763.4
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 6,253 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 5,079 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 6,703 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 5,891 4 0 679.0
2023 Q2 0 0 0
2023 Q1 3,931 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 4,196 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,478 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,988 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,361 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,015 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,444 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 896 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,922 1 0 520.3
2020 Q3 485 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,948 4 1 2053.4
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 944 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 0 0 0
2019 Q2 161 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 688 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 960 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,032 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,047 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 2,406 2 1 831.3
2017 Q4 1,964 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 3,715 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 6,479 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 5,836 2 0 342.7
2016 Q4 4,198 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 4,606 4 3 868.4
2016 Q2 2,321 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,629 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 749 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,556 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,225 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 452 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,377 6 0 2524.2
2014 Q3 36 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 983 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 4,908 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 6,695 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 299 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,532 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 7,471 2 0 267.7
2012 Q4 726 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 3,031 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 108 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 683 5 2 7320.6
2011 Q4 1,562 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 3,582 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 4,074 8 3 1963.7
2011 Q1 3,911 3 0 767.1
2010 Q4 2,521 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 400 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 5,405 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1,148 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 2,719 2 0 735.6
2008 Q3 2,476 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,852 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 4,345 6 0 1380.9
2007 Q4 5,431 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 5,651 6 0 1061.8
2007 Q2 4,575 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 2,540 1 0 393.7
2006 Q4 2,548 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 2,385 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 4,171 4 1 959.0
2006 Q1 4,862 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 7,545 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 5,015 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 3,526 3 0 850.8
2005 Q1 7,615 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 15,366 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,302 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 0 0 0
2004 Q1 13,102 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 11,456 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 7,270 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 5,595 4 1 714.9
2003 Q1 8,904 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,965 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 3,788 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 3,579 6 1 1676.4
2002 Q1 5,806 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 4,665 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 0 0 0
2001 Q2 0 0 0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 2,263 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,096 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 155 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

10 on file

2023 · 1 incident

2013 · 1 incident

October 11, 2013 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Fisher Sand & Gravel Co · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee started to ascend the ladder of the loader and allegedly fell backwards. Fisher Sand and & Gravel Company and out workers compensation insurance company are questioning the validity of this claim.

2009 · 2 incidents

February 12, 2009 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Fisher Sand & Gravel Co · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Cleaning out the HSI to adjust liners with pry bar. He pryed up with pry bar and hurt right elbow.

2006 · 1 incident

March 29, 2006 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Fisher Sand & Gravel Co · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Lifting guard rail post and strained right inner thigh.

1994 · 3 incidents

July 29, 1994 ND · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Fisher Sand & Gravel Co · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EMPLOYEE WAS DIGGING OUT & PULLING UP AN ELECTRICAL CARGO HE FELT PAIN IN HISX BACK PLANT WAS LOCKED OUT EMPLOYEE DID NOT REPORT INCIDENT UNTIL 08-01-94

June 29, 1994 ND · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Fisher Sand & Gravel Co · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS REMOVING A BRACE FROM THE WASH PLANT AFTER REMOVING THE LAST BOLT THE BRACE FELL & PINCHED HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE WRENCH & BRACE & FRAME SMASHING THE FINGER.

June 27, 1994 ND · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Fisher Sand & Gravel Co · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS SWEEPING OUT THE DOZER CAB. STEPPED BACK ONTO TRACK AND SLIPPED BETWEEN TRACK AND FRAME FELL ONTO TRACK AND TWISTED LEFT LEG BELOW THE KNEE AS HE FELL.

1991 · 1 incident

May 30, 1991 ND · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Fisher Sand & Gravel Co · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL WAS CLEANING OUT TOP CHUTE ON BUZZER SCREEN DECK. HE SLIPPED & TWISTED KNEE.

1987 · 1 incident

August 24, 1987 ND · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman MACHINERY
Fisher Sand & Gravel Co · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

DOZING IN PIT A3D SUDDNELY FETL A SHARP PAIN IN NECK AND ARM