Mining Incidents

High Ridge: 4 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Miles Sand & Gravel · Surface
Controlled by Walt Miles
Port Orchard, Kitsap County, WA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4503746

High Ridge has $488 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 2019
4
citations
0
significant & substantial
$488
proposed penalties
$488
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
10
inspections on record
74
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: 74 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

High Ridge has $488 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.
$488
proposed penalties
$488
current assessed
$488
paid to date
$0
outstanding
4 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-03-12.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
0.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 50.0% low, 50.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Miles Sand & Gravel 2016 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 0
2024 0
2023 0
2022 0
2021 1
2020 2
2019 2
2017 0
2016 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

High Ridge sits in Kitsap County, Washington, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Kitsap County, Washington · Population 276,581
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$98,546
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 281 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 75 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 0 0 0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 91 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
Show 27 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 88 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q2 0 0 0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 0 0 0
2022 Q2 35 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 48 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 63 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 556 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 65 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 72 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 86 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 196 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 576 2 0 3472.2
2019 Q4 74 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 56 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 172 2 0 11627.9
2019 Q1 255 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 0 0 0
2016 Q3 24 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 160 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.