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Fisher Industries Plant 28: 28 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Thomas G Fisher
Gila Bend, Maricopa County, AZ  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3200732

Fisher Industries Plant 28 has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1997–2011
Latest incident
Mar 2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
28
citations
9
significant & substantial
$3,626
proposed penalties
$3,626
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Fisher Sand & Gravel Co.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
22
inspections on record
237
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: 237 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Fisher Industries Plant 28 has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
28 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2017-03-07.
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.
32.1%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
32.1%
reasonably likely or greater
75.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 3.6% low, 96.4% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2024-09-18
40%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
6
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz52 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (6)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2003-02-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.48 0.28 1.71 Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-02-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.85 0.52 1.63 Bulldozer Operator
2024-09-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-09-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.79 0.19 Utility Man
2003-02-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.41 0.46 0.89 Cleanup Man
2003-02-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.46 0.7 0.66 Front-end Loader Operator
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 28 recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2006.

Injury rate, 2006
ⓘ 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 3.41 and the all-US-mining average was 3.91 cases per 100 workers.
In Arizona, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.00 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
2006 * 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. 1993 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 0
2025 0
2024 3
2023 4
2022 7
2021 3
2020 5
2019 2
2018 0
2017 4
2016 4
2015 0
2014 1
2013 2
2012 4
2011 5
2010 14
2009 0
2008 0
2007 5
2006 12
2005 3
2004 12
2003 16
2002 4
2001 1
2000 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Fisher Industries Plant 28 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 0 0 0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 0 0 0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 523 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 359 0 0 0.0
Show 95 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 999 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,913 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,822 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 599 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,121 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 690 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,775 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 948 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 0 0 0
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 845 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,225 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 998 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,561 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,911 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,578 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 0 0 0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 34 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,899 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 95 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 195 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,026 1 1 974.7
2016 Q4 2,045 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,089 6 2 2872.2
2016 Q2 2,633 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 104 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 0 0 0
2015 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q2 0 0 0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 383 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 48 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 0 0 0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 532 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 485 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 0 0 0
2013 Q1 223 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,655 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 5,082 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 3,051 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,863 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 5,114 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 5,529 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 297 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 2,946 1 0 339.4
2010 Q4 13,687 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 8,146 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q2 0 0 0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 6,758 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 3,918 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 5,691 1 0 175.7
2006 Q4 2,465 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 13,346 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 19,097 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 14,406 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,551 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 2,621 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,264 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 3,898 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 5,575 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 14,416 9 5 624.3
2004 Q2 12,574 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 2,912 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 9,694 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 9,053 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 7,126 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 15,229 10 1 656.6
2002 Q4 4,036 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 3,425 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 3,892 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 85 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 421 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 0 0 0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 0 0 0
2000 Q3 0 0 0
2000 Q2 0 0 0
2000 Q1 145 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2011 · 1 incident

March 24, 2011 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Fisher Sand & Gravel Co. · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee slipped, causing him to fall backwards and catch himself with his right hand. Fractured right hand in 3 places.

1997 · 1 incident

July 11, 1997 ND · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Fisher Sand & Gravel Co. · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EE WAS TIGHTENING THE TENSION ON A SPEED REDUCER. WHILE APPLYING TORQUE TO A BOLT HE STRESSED HIS BACK. EE HAS A BAD BACK HISTORY.