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Golden Chest Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Grant A Brackebusch
Murray, Shoshone County, ID  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1000414

Golden Chest Mine has $36K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2021–2024
Latest incident
Oct 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2014
144
citations
19
significant & substantial
$36,386
proposed penalties
$33,786
paid to date
93% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,600 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
73
inspections on record
1,803
inspection hours
8.0
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.
144 citations across 1,803 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Golden Chest Mine has $36K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$36K
proposed penalties
$34K
current assessed
$34K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
143 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-05.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
See also the operator's enforcement record
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
2025 Q4 21,770 2 0 91.9
2025 Q3 17,232 3 0 174.1
2025 Q2 17,680 3 0 169.7
2025 Q1 17,758 1 0 56.3
2024 Q4 17,997 1 0 55.6
2024 Q3 15,950 2 0 125.4
2024 Q2 15,110 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 13,900 0 0 0.0
Show 37 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 13,760 2 0 145.3
2023 Q3 13,760 1 0 72.7
2023 Q2 12,890 3 0 232.7
2023 Q1 13,532 12 0 886.8
2022 Q4 19,074 3 0 157.3
2022 Q3 13,480 1 0 74.2
2022 Q2 17,420 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 16,120 3 0 186.1
2021 Q4 12,480 5 1 400.6
2021 Q3 15,080 7 3 464.2
2021 Q2 13,000 6 0 461.5
2021 Q1 8,640 1 0 115.7
2020 Q4 8,840 2 0 226.2
2020 Q3 6,120 4 0 653.6
2020 Q2 5,100 8 1 1568.6
2020 Q1 4,070 2 0 491.4
2019 Q4 5,200 4 1 769.2
2019 Q3 3,640 12 0 3296.7
2019 Q2 3,640 3 0 824.2
2019 Q1 3,120 2 0 641.0
2018 Q4 3,650 1 0 274.0
2018 Q3 2,080 1 0 480.8
2018 Q2 1,720 2 0 1162.8
2018 Q1 1,560 2 0 1282.1
2017 Q4 1,560 1 0 641.0
2017 Q3 1,440 1 0 694.4
2017 Q1 1,040 2 0 1923.1
2016 Q4 2,340 4 1 1709.4
2016 Q3 960 1 0 1041.7
2016 Q2 20 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 60 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 552 2 0 3623.2
2015 Q3 15,906 7 2 440.1
2015 Q2 23,276 3 1 128.9
2015 Q1 17,187 18 8 1047.3
2014 Q4 15,289 4 1 261.6
2014 Q3 4,725 2 0 423.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2024 · 1 incident

October 18, 2024 ID · Metal/Non-Metal miner, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Idaho Strategic Resources Inc · Struck against stationary object

Miner was pulling a jackleg from a hole and bumped EE's elbow on a Monster Mat on the rib. Causing a laceration that was 2.5 inches and required 6 stitches. Miner returned to work.

2021 · 1 incident

September 27, 2021 ID · Metal/Non-Metal miner, nec FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Idaho Strategic Resources Inc · Struck by falling object

A miner was bolting the back of the 833 N stope. A fall of ground in the hanging wall fault zone buried the miner until the miner could be rescued by other miners on the crew. The miner received a broken jaw, broken femur, broken rib, fractured hip, several face abrasions, as well as missing teeth.

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