Mining Incidents

Gardner Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Granite Construction Inc
Buelton, Santa Barbara County, CA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0401683

Gardner Pit has $8K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
78
citations
10
significant & substantial
$8,473
proposed penalties
$7,157
paid to date
84% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,316 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
37
inspections on record
706
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: 706 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Gardner Pit has $8K 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
76 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-11-16.
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
2016 Q4 783 1 0 1277.1
2016 Q3 2,850 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 3,132 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 3,549 1 0 281.8
2015 Q4 3,444 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,236 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q3 1,643 0 0 0.0
Show 50 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2012 Q2 4,356 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 4,842 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 5,501 1 0 181.8
2011 Q3 5,845 1 0 171.1
2011 Q2 5,533 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 5,073 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 4,857 2 2 411.8
2010 Q3 5,481 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 5,725 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 5,235 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 5,193 3 0 577.7
2009 Q3 5,599 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 4,618 2 0 433.1
2009 Q1 4,590 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 4,962 3 0 604.6
2008 Q3 5,431 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 5,722 3 1 524.3
2008 Q1 5,968 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 4,696 1 0 212.9
2007 Q3 6,055 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 5,689 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 6,049 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 6,226 2 1 321.2
2006 Q3 6,835 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 6,835 1 0 146.3
2006 Q1 5,040 6 1 1190.5
2005 Q4 6,391 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 7,753 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 7,112 4 0 562.4
2005 Q1 6,229 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 7,341 6 0 817.3
2004 Q3 7,909 1 0 126.4
2004 Q2 6,438 5 1 776.6
2004 Q1 5,046 2 0 396.4
2003 Q4 3,534 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 4,217 4 0 948.5
2003 Q2 4,929 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 4,213 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 5,629 1 0 177.7
2002 Q3 7,725 5 0 647.2
2002 Q2 6,685 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 7,924 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 13,461 15 4 1114.3
2001 Q3 12,063 1 0 82.9
2001 Q2 13,461 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 6,791 3 0 441.8
2000 Q4 10,601 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 8,700 1 0 114.9
2000 Q2 7,105 1 0 140.7
2000 Q1 5,203 2 0 384.4

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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