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Fisher Industries Plant 37: 49 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Thomas G Fisher
Wellton, Yuma County, AZ  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0203166

Fisher Industries Plant 37 has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2008–2019
Latest incident
Aug 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
49
citations
8
significant & substantial
$6,563
proposed penalties
$6,456
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $107 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Fisher Sand & Gravel Company's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2007
32
inspections on record
368
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: 368 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 37 has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
49 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-04-03.
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.
16.3%
significant & substantial
2.0%
high negligence or reckless
16.3%
reasonably likely or greater
34.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 10.2% low, 87.8% moderate, 2.0% 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.
13 citations taken to the federal commission · 27% of citations on record
  • Settled 8 · 62%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 5 · 38%
75%
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 4 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
30%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$2K proposed, $1K 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 2013-09-04.
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
WEST 2013-1110M Settlement Manning 2014 $907 → $800
WEST 2013-230M Settlement Manning 2013 $700 → $400
WEST 2008-631M Settlement Manning 2009 $400 → $200
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: 2020-05-19, 6 years ago
33%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
6
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz41 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (6)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2013-05-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 2.68 1.47 1.82 Cleanup Man
2020-05-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 Belt Crew
2020-05-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2013-07-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.43 1.41 0.30 Cleanup Man
2013-05-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.55 1.13 0.49 Crusher Oper/Worker
2013-05-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator

Area samples (mill and shop air)

Last sampled: 2016-12-13, 9 years ago
2
samples
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Area sampled
2016-12-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 SF ORE PROCESSING
2016-09-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 SF GENERAL
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 37 recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2012.

Injury rate, 2012
ⓘ 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
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.48 and the all-US-mining average was 2.96 cases per 100 workers.
In Arizona, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.96 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
2012 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2008 * 15.43 5.14 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 Company 2007 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 14
2025 0
2024 4
2023 5
2022 6
2021 5
2020 9
2019 6
2018 5
2017 2
2016 4
2015 1
2014 3
2013 5
2012 20
2011 2
2010 1
2009 2
2008 12
2007 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Fisher Industries Plant 37 sits in Yuma County, Arizona, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Yuma County, Arizona · Population 207,685
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$60,417
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 14,037 0 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 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
Show 70 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1,727 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,068 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 2,396 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,775 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,474 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,751 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 945 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,335 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,177 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,202 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,071 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,080 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,399 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 3,889 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,804 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 4,196 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 5,634 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 4,862 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,326 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,321 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 3,340 4 0 1197.6
2019 Q1 3,114 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 2,892 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,270 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 361 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 400 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 1,804 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,364 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 784 1 0 1275.5
2016 Q3 259 12 1 46332.0
2016 Q2 1,296 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 3,763 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 697 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q2 0 0 0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 768 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,574 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 386 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 1,720 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,944 1 0 514.4
2013 Q2 1,895 5 1 2638.5
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 20,879 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 31,498 8 3 254.0
2012 Q2 9,243 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 538 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 829 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,060 2 0 1886.8
2011 Q2 1,227 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1,047 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,240 6 2 4838.7
2010 Q3 2,543 3 0 1179.7
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 449 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,710 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,333 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 610 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 4,593 2 0 435.4
2008 Q3 4,225 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 15,426 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 14,642 3 0 204.9
2007 Q4 6,065 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,773 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,872 1 0 534.2
2007 Q1 915 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2019 · 1 incident

2015 · 1 incident

December 14, 2015 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Fisher Sand & Gravel Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Workers attempting to remove bearing. Came off pinching one workers left pinky finger between bearing and frame of chain feeder.

2009 · 1 incident

May 28, 2009 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Fisher Sand & Gravel Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE was too close to chain conveyor as loader pulled back, pinching finger.

2008 · 3 incidents

August 24, 2008 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Fisher Sand & Gravel Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Accident happened on 8-24-08, however, he did not got to the doctor until 9-2-08. He was tightening up bolt when wrench slipped & he fell to the ground straining right shoulder muscle.

August 18, 2008 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Fisher Sand & Gravel Company · Struck against stationary object

Was changing blow bars and when Injury started cleaning rotors and ran back side of right hand against rotar, cutting pinky.