Mining Incidents

Kirkpatrick Pit 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
31
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.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
30
inspections on record
357
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: 357 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.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-01-06.
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 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
2024 Q2 1,584 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,109 0 0 0.0
Show 53 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
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.

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The full compliance file on Kirkpatrick Pit

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.