Mining Incidents

Graham Pit: 79 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Smith & Bell Construction Company · Surface
Safford, Graham County, AZ  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0202543

Graham Pit has $11K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
79
citations
34
significant & substantial
$11,216
proposed penalties
$11,216
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
19
inspections on record
272
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: 272 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Graham Pit has $11K 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
78 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-03-22.
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.
43.6%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
43.6%
reasonably likely or greater
67.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 3.8% low, 96.2% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2002-06-20, 24 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2002-06-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.46 2.28 0.20 Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-06-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.35 1.34 0.26 Front-end Loader 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.
Ownership history
  1. Smith & Bell Construction Company 1990 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2012 0
2011 3
2010 4
2009 3
2008 4
2007 5
2006 3
2005 3
2004 2
2003 1
2002 1
2001 1
2000 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Graham Pit sits in Graham County, Arizona, where the Census mining category is 11.5% 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.
Graham County, Arizona · Population 38,860
11.5%
Mining share of county employment
$67,326
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
2012 Q1 0 1 0
2011 Q4 315 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 514 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 569 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 481 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 550 3 0 5454.5
2010 Q3 424 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 368 0 0 0.0
Show 41 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2010 Q1 94 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 141 7 4 49645.4
2009 Q3 736 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 788 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 527 3 1 5692.6
2008 Q4 686 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,170 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,052 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,019 7 2 6869.5
2007 Q4 939 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,091 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,088 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 923 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 498 2 0 4016.1
2006 Q3 319 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 455 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 425 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 344 21 8 61046.5
2005 Q3 641 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 339 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 218 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 234 2 0 8547.0
2004 Q3 266 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 230 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 234 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 216 5 3 23148.1
2003 Q3 262 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 232 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 194 20 13 103092.8
2002 Q4 243 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 252 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 264 8 3 30303.0
2002 Q1 203 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 220 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 247 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 218 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 278 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 314 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 300 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 254 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 265 0 0 0.0

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.