Mining Incidents

Little El Dorado Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by James L Thurman
Fairbanks, Fairbanks North Star County, AK  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 5001652

Little El Dorado has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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 2008
17
citations
8
significant & substantial
$2,913
proposed penalties
$1,348
paid to date
46% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,565 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
14
inspections on record
210
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: 210 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 El Dorado has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
16 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-08-18.
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
2018 Q2 1,620 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 0 0 0
2014 Q2 0 0 0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 0 0 0
2013 Q3 0 0 0
2013 Q2 0 0 0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
Show 52 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q3 78 2 0 25641.0
2012 Q2 2,096 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,808 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,190 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 2,644 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,598 1 0 384.9
2011 Q1 1,287 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 521 7 5 13435.7
2010 Q3 4,252 1 0 235.2
2010 Q2 3,018 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 629 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 2,039 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 874 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 2,647 6 3 2266.7
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 2,718 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,053 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,029 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q3 4,650 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 3,760 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 0 0 0
2005 Q3 3,685 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 3,594 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 190 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 3,729 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 4,746 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2003 Q3 3,795 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 2,524 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 0 0 0
2002 Q3 976 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 0 0 0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 0 0 0
2001 Q3 3,635 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 2,506 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 0 0 0
2000 Q3 2,752 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 536 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,904 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 Little El Dorado

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