Mining Incidents

Gold Basin: 19 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Pushpak Bullions Pvt Ltd
Wilhoit, Yavapai County, AZ  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0203125

Gold Basin has $3K 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
1
Years on record
2015
Latest incident
Jan 2015
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
19
citations
6
significant & substantial
$2,678
proposed penalties
$2,678
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
8
inspections on record
53
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: 53 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Gold Basin has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
19 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-04-25.
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.
31.6%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
31.6%
reasonably likely or greater
63.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.3% low, 94.7% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Pine Creek Mining, Inc. 2006 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2015 5
2014 6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Gold Basin sits in Yavapai County, Arizona, where the Census mining category is 1.2% 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.
Yavapai County, Arizona · Population 241,656
1.2%
Mining share of county employment
$66,106
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
2015 Q3 1,055 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,202 14 6 11647.3
2015 Q1 1,814 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,873 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,633 1 0 612.4
2014 Q2 1,466 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2015 · 1 incident

January 26, 2015 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Pine Creek Mining, Inc. · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Loader Operator lifting new scraper blade for installation on loader bucket. Result was small umbilical hernia. The employee has continued work with no time lost to date. Workers Comp has referred employee to physician to determine type of treatment that may be necessary. Unknown at this point if any surgery is required.