Gypsum Mountain: 1 recorded fatality
Metal/Non-Metal
Gypsum Mountain has $15K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 1
- Years on record
- 2014
- Latest incident
- May 2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2014
5
significant & substantial
$14,536
proposed penalties
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 360 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Gypsum Mountain has $15K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
15 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-08-22.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
33.3%
significant & substantial
46.7%
high negligence or reckless
33.3%
reasonably likely or greater
73.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 13.3% low, 40.0% moderate, 46.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
| Year |
Employees |
| 2015 |
1 |
| 2014 |
3 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Gypsum Mountain sits in Pershing County, Nevada, where the Census mining category is 20.4% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.
Pershing County, Nevada · Population 6,505
20.4%
Mining share of county employment
$72,007
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
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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 Q1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2014 Q4 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2014 Q3 |
42 |
8 |
4 |
190476.2 |
| 2014 Q2 |
121 |
7 |
1 |
57851.2 |
| 2014 Q1 |
75 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
Fatalities at this mine
1 recorded
May 1, 2014
NV · Metal/Non-Metal
mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner
Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Silver State Minerals LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
No eye witness to accident. ATV was traveling up a + or - 15% slope and lost traction. The road has some uneven spots that might of contributed to the loss of traction. The ATV appears to not have been in All Wheel Drive which could have contributed to the loss of traction.