Mining Incidents

Highland Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Highland Quarry LLC · Surface
Airway Heights, Spokane County, WA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4503653

Highland Quarry has $3K 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 2008
25
citations
7
significant & substantial
$2,900
proposed penalties
$2,900
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
4
inspections on record
108
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: 108 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Highland Quarry has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
25 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-08-10.
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
2011 Q4 618 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 859 3 1 3492.4
2011 Q2 723 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 312 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 349 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 516 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 764 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 226 0 0 0.0
Show 6 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2009 Q4 787 1 0 1270.6
2009 Q3 885 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,655 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 99 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,295 21 6 16216.2
2008 Q3 1,502 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.

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