Mining Incidents

Kaweah South Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Teichert Inc
Woodlake, Tulare County, CA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0405942

Kaweah South has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 1 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 2020
36
citations
7
significant & substantial
$9,259
proposed penalties
$6,571
paid to date
71% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,688 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
22
inspections on record
400
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: 400 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Kaweah South has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 1 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.
$9K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
34 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-06.
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
2025 Q4 5,324 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 5,323 2 0 375.7
2025 Q2 5,323 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 4,950 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4,480 1 1 223.2
2024 Q3 5,086 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 5,623 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 5,409 0 0 0.0
Show 18 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 5,359 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 5,413 2 0 369.5
2023 Q2 5,313 4 1 752.9
2023 Q1 4,945 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 4,478 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 5,351 18 2 3363.9
2022 Q2 5,754 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 5,387 1 0 185.6
2021 Q4 4,616 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 5,516 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 4,743 1 1 210.8
2021 Q1 5,512 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 5,314 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 4,846 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 5,018 4 1 797.1
2020 Q1 4,455 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 4,158 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 4,076 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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