Mining Incidents

Ironhead Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Ironhead Inc · Surface
Controlled by Kelly Garland Johnson
Vale, Malheur County, OR  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3503788

Ironhead Pit has $1K 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 2018
11
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,482
proposed penalties
$1,482
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
14
inspections on record
124
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: 124 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Ironhead Pit has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
11 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-01-26.
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
2025 Q4 2,907 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,055 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,827 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,732 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,050 2 0 975.6
2024 Q3 2,570 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,750 1 0 571.4
2024 Q1 1,473 0 0 0.0
Show 28 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,487 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,376 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,485 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,588 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 738 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,035 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 995 1 0 1005.0
2022 Q1 1,530 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,275 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,702 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 792 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,033 1 0 968.1
2020 Q4 1,378 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,395 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 639 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,091 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 665 1 0 1503.8
2019 Q3 623 2 0 3210.3
2019 Q2 1,039 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 520 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 520 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 320 1 0 3125.0
2017 Q4 520 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 480 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 125 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 25 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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