Mining Incidents

Goldstream: 19 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Fairbanks, Fairbanks North Star County, AK  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 5002079

Goldstream has $7K 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
2
Years on record
2025
Latest incident
Jul 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2022
19
citations
3
significant & substantial
$7,432
proposed penalties
$7,432
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2021
16
inspections on record
246
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: 246 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Goldstream has $7K 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
19 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-09-27.
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.
15.8%
significant & substantial
57.9%
high negligence or reckless
15.8%
reasonably likely or greater
31.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 26.3% low, 15.8% moderate, 57.9% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.

Goldstream recorded 5.41 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
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.
5.41
total case rate
5.41
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Alaska, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.43 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
2025 * 5.41 5.41 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 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. Big Sky Exploration LLC 2021 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 20
2025 24
2024 18
2023 26
2022 23
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Goldstream sits in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, where the Census mining category is 2.6% 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.
Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska · Population 95,555
2.6%
Mining share of county employment
$84,722
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 34,560 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 20,000 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 25,000 1 0 40.0
2025 Q2 25,000 2 0 80.0
2025 Q1 4,000 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 6,240 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 28,336 0 0 0.0
Show 8 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 25,000 11 1 440.0
2024 Q1 3,120 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 11,440 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 15,600 2 0 128.2
2023 Q2 25,025 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 17,160 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 25,300 3 2 118.6
2022 Q2 13,524 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2025 · 2 incidents

July 29, 2025 AK · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Big Sky Exploration LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was attempting to line up conveyor belt on wash plant, pry bar slipped & weight pushed wrench employee was using into their right thumb. Flowers was transported to ER via private vehicle. They received stitches, followed up with orthopedic surgeon was placed in cast for 6 weeks.

June 18, 2025 AK · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Big Sky Exploration LLC · Fall from machine

Miner lost footing exiting a box truck, while retrieving a jug of def. Fell from truck landing on left leg, resulting in a leg fracture. Miner was transported by private vehicle to FMH emergency department, where their leg was stabilized.