Mining Incidents

Highline Road Pit: 59 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Richard J Ogle
Bozeman, Gallatin County, MT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2402338

Highline Road Pit has $10K 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 2003
59
citations
9
significant & substantial
$10,393
proposed penalties
$10,393
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
38
inspections on record
386
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: 386 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Highline Road Pit has $10K 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
58 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-07-23.
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.
15.5%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
15.5%
reasonably likely or greater
39.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 1.7% none, 17.2% low, 81.0% 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: 2023-06-21, 3 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
Show the individual readings (8)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2023-06-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-06-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2023-06-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 0.75 0.21 Laborer, Bullgang
2018-07-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-07-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2017-03-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 0.53 0.53 Crusher Oper/Worker
2011-06-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 1.08 0.14 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-06-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.65 0.31 Crusher Oper/Worker
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. Portable Inc 2003 to 2015
  2. Kenyon Noble Ready Mix 2015 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2025 4
2024 4
2023 4
2022 3
2021 4
2020 3
2019 3
2018 3
2017 3
2016 3
2015 3
2014 3
2013 2
2012 2
2011 3
2010 2
2009 0
2008 2
2007 3
2006 2
2005 4
2004 5
2003 6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Highline Road Pit sits in Gallatin County, Montana, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Gallatin County, Montana · Population 122,194
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$87,454
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
2025 Q1 602 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,129 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,654 4 0 1507.2
2024 Q2 2,334 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,044 1 0 489.2
2023 Q4 2,186 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,354 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,299 4 0 1739.9
Show 74 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q1 2,055 1 0 486.6
2022 Q4 1,801 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,864 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,810 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,615 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,339 1 0 427.5
2021 Q3 2,544 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,572 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,727 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,405 1 0 415.8
2020 Q3 2,032 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,761 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,437 1 1 695.9
2019 Q4 1,433 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,736 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,251 3 0 1332.7
2019 Q1 1,443 2 0 1386.0
2018 Q4 1,802 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,900 2 0 1052.6
2018 Q2 2,773 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,187 2 0 1684.9
2017 Q4 1,373 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,292 1 0 436.3
2017 Q2 1,388 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,091 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,163 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,397 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,466 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,686 1 0 593.1
2015 Q4 1,324 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,274 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,364 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,593 3 0 1883.2
2014 Q3 1,962 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,755 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,477 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,196 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,394 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,163 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 815 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,358 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,005 1 0 995.0
2012 Q2 1,136 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 864 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,033 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,265 1 0 790.5
2011 Q1 870 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 922 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 970 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,010 2 0 1980.2
2009 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,182 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 953 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 952 1 0 1050.4
2007 Q4 1,364 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,599 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,314 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,754 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 948 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,497 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,535 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,727 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,859 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 2,040 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 2,168 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,749 12 4 6861.1
2004 Q4 1,803 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 2,863 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 3,033 5 1 1648.5
2004 Q1 1,080 1 0 925.9
2003 Q4 1,334 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 3,540 9 3 2542.4

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.