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: 159 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Gifford Central 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
30 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-10-05.
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.
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: 2013-12-04, 12 years ago
3
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (3)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2013-12-04
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.12
Ground Control/Timberman
2013-12-04
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2013-12-04
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.14
Dredge/Barge 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.
Gifford Central recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2017.
Injury rate, 2017
ⓘ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 1.99 and the all-US-mining average was 2.48 cases per 100 workers.
In Illinois, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.92 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
2017 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2016 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2015 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2014 *
9.90
9.90
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2022
4
2021
8
2018
6
2017
16
2016
11
2015
12
2014
9
2013
6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Gifford Central sits in Cook County, Illinois, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Cook County, Illinois · Population 5,185,812
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$81,797
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
2022 Q3
2,110
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
1,269
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
52
0
0
0.0
2021 Q4
4,178
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
3,460
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
3,484
0
0
0.0
2017 Q4
8,206
0
0
0.0
2017 Q3
7,114
0
0
0.0
Show 16 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2017 Q2
12,238
0
0
0.0
2017 Q1
7,642
0
0
0.0
2016 Q4
4,994
12
0
2402.9
2016 Q3
7,185
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
7,343
0
0
0.0
2016 Q1
2,209
5
0
2263.5
2015 Q4
7,659
0
0
0.0
2015 Q3
7,674
0
0
0.0
2015 Q2
8,532
4
1
468.8
2015 Q1
3,412
0
0
0.0
2014 Q4
6,013
0
0
0.0
2014 Q3
6,708
0
0
0.0
2014 Q2
5,885
0
0
0.0
2014 Q1
1,599
0
0
0.0
2013 Q4
5,124
7
1
1366.1
2013 Q3
1,340
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2014 · 1 incident
August 9, 2014IL · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE and another ee saw big rock in pile that shouldn't be there. We're inspecting screen panel condition & discharge cluck flop gate position. Both men were on opposite sides of catwalk. EE put his hand inside chute and the other ee pulled a lever on the other side. The gate was closed on ee thumb. He received 5 stitches on his thumb and lost his nail.