Mining Incidents

Knife River - North West Metal/Non-Metal

Knife River · Surface
Controlled by Knife River Corporation
COLVILLE, Stevens County, WA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4503326

Knife River - North West has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $100 outstanding across 3 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 2002
21
citations
4
significant & substantial
$1,896
proposed penalties
$1,659
paid to date
88% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $237 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
11
inspections on record
135
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: 135 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Knife River - North West has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $100 outstanding across 3 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$100
outstanding
21 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-07-27.
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
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 0 1 0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 0 0 0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q3 701 0 0 0.0
Show 26 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2006 Q2 2,738 2 0 730.5
2006 Q1 1,005 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,324 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,966 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 2,437 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 770 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,197 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 2,246 7 1 3116.7
2004 Q2 800 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2003 Q3 0 0 0
2003 Q2 605 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 1,094 7 1 6398.5
2002 Q3 0 0 0
2002 Q2 0 0 0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 1,157 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,876 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,619 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 727 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,230 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,670 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 345 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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