Mining Incidents

Little Chico Creek Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by John H Franklin
Chico, Butte County, CA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0405916

Little Chico Creek has $776 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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 2018
6
citations
0
significant & substantial
$776
proposed penalties
$776
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
12
inspections on record
121
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: 121 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Little Chico Creek has $776 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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.
$776
proposed penalties
$776
current assessed
$776
paid to date
$0
outstanding
6 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-12-05.
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 256 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 442 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,129 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 211 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 62 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 23 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 837 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 253 0 0 0.0
Show 29 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 354 1 0 2824.9
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q2 1,152 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 371 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 204 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 36 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 117 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 828 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 232 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 0 0 0
2021 Q2 988 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 682 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 315 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 215 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 40 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 35 1 0 28571.4
2019 Q4 107 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 521 1 0 1919.4
2019 Q2 260 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 25 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 327 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 464 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 882 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 260 3 0 11538.5
2017 Q4 278 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 465 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,485 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 91 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 717 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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