Mining Incidents

Herke Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Steve Herke; Mark Herke
Yakima, Yakima County, WA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4503530

Herke Quarry has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K 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 2003
60
citations
23
significant & substantial
$16,103
proposed penalties
$12,611
paid to date
78% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,492 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
27
inspections on record
394
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: 394 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Herke Quarry has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K 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.
$16K
proposed penalties
$16K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
59 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-05-06.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2018 Q3 291 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 548 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 318 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 525 2 1 3809.5
2017 Q3 434 3 1 6912.4
2016 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
Show 48 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2015 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 123 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 145 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 385 4 0 10389.6
2014 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 76 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 201 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 189 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 522 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1 2 1 2000000.0
2013 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1 1 0 1000000.0
2012 Q3 1,566 1 0 638.6
2012 Q2 994 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,287 1 1 777.0
2011 Q4 1,816 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,886 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,656 2 1 1207.7
2011 Q1 1,346 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 3,302 7 3 2119.9
2010 Q3 1,634 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,536 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 3,155 2 1 633.9
2009 Q4 1,807 6 5 3320.4
2009 Q3 1,834 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 567 3 1 5291.0
2009 Q1 1,852 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 613 6 4 9787.9
2008 Q3 2,939 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 2,481 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 2,285 1 0 437.6
2007 Q4 2,642 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,929 6 3 3110.4
2007 Q2 1,953 1 0 512.0
2007 Q1 1,552 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,123 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,161 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,152 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,147 5 1 4359.2
2005 Q3 470 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 492 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,466 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,510 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,441 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 608 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 485 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 509 2 0 3929.3
2003 Q3 515 4 0 7767.0

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.

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