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Kirkpatrick Pit: 35 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by John Brumfield
Grays Harbor, Grays Harbor County, WA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4503393

Kirkpatrick Pit has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2000
35
citations
5
significant & substantial
$3,473
proposed penalties
$3,473
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Brumfield Construction, Inc's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
32
inspections on record
368
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: 368 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Kirkpatrick Pit has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
31 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $662 in penalties contested before the Commission, $662 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-01-06.
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.
14.3%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
14.3%
reasonably likely or greater
42.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 37.1% low, 62.9% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
3 citations taken to the federal commission · 9% of citations on record
  • Settled 3 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$662 proposed, $662 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2023-05-15.
Contested penalties
ⓘ A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
WEST 2023-0237 Settlement Manning 2023 $662 → $662
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2021-10-07, 4 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2021-10-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Scraper Operator
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. MJR Ltd 1999 to 2020
  2. Brumfield Construction, Inc 2020 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 3
2024 3
2023 4
2022 3
2021 3
2020 3
2009 1
2008 1
2007 1
2006 1
2005 1
2004 1
2003 1
2002 1
2001 1
2000 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Kirkpatrick Pit sits in Grays Harbor County, Washington, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Grays Harbor County, Washington · Population 76,397
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$63,539
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 2,674 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 881 1 0 1135.1
2025 Q4 1,632 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,532 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,143 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 602 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,371 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,677 3 0 1120.7
Show 55 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1,584 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,109 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,743 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,049 1 1 328.0
2023 Q2 3,152 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,407 4 1 2842.9
2022 Q4 3,621 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 921 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 708 3 1 4237.3
2022 Q1 1,137 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,386 3 2 2164.5
2021 Q3 1,180 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,696 1 0 589.6
2021 Q1 985 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,670 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,340 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 78 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 82 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 75 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 87 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 87 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 88 1 0 11363.6
2007 Q4 77 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 79 2 0 25316.5
2007 Q2 79 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 84 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 72 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 82 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 81 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 77 3 0 38961.0
2005 Q4 81 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 78 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 76 1 0 13157.9
2005 Q1 81 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 76 2 0 26315.8
2004 Q3 94 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 71 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 61 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 65 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 59 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 45 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 310 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 480 2 0 4166.7
2002 Q2 420 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 480 1 0 2083.3
2001 Q4 380 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 480 1 0 2083.3
2001 Q2 380 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 460 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 490 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 480 2 0 4166.7
2000 Q1 680 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.