Mining Incidents

Lippman Gravel Plant: 23 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Steven G Smith
Boyne City, Charlevoix County, MI  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2003134

Lippman Gravel Plant has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $3K in penalties since 2000, with $1K outstanding.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
—
Latest incident
—
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
23
citations
6
significant & substantial
$2,998
proposed penalties
$1,640
paid to date
55% of proposed penalties paid to date. The remaining $1,358 was reduced, settled, contested or is still owed.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
13
inspections on record
78
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: 78 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Lippman Gravel Plant has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
22 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $129 in penalties contested before the Commission, $55 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-06-14.
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.
27.3%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
27.3%
reasonably likely or greater
50.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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
LAKE20030037M Settlement Barbour 2003 $129 → $55
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. C H Smith Company Inc 1997 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2004 1
2003 0
2002 0
2001 1
2000 2
1999 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Lippman Gravel Plant sits in Charlevoix County, Michigan, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Charlevoix County, Michigan · Population 26,143
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$76,495
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; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. 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
2004 Q3 80 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 0 1 0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 0 0 0
2002 Q3 0 0 0
Show 10 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2002 Q2 41 18 5 439024.4
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 0 0 0
2001 Q3 250 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 1,215 3 1 2469.1
2000 Q3 663 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,620 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 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.