Mining Incidents

Little Squaw Creek Metal/Non-Metal

Coldfoot, Yukon-Koyukuk County, AK  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 5001402

Little Squaw Creek has $764 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2018
Latest incident
Jun 2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
8
citations
0
significant & substantial
$764
proposed penalties
$764
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
6
inspections on record
108
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: 108 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 Squaw Creek has $764 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$764
proposed penalties
$764
current assessed
$764
paid to date
$0
outstanding
7 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2018-03-14.
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 0 0 0
2025 Q3 2,269 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 2,288 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
Show 44 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 1,420 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 0 0 0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 1,192 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 0 0 0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q3 0 0 0
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 452 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q3 2,066 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,658 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 10,441 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 838 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 57,100 1 0 17.5
2018 Q2 52,004 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 16,631 1 0 60.1
2017 Q4 6,806 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 57,433 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 34,847 2 0 57.4
2017 Q1 4,209 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 3,631 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 39,236 1 0 25.5
2016 Q2 23,152 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 0 0 0
2015 Q3 35,343 3 0 84.9
2015 Q2 30,701 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 14,518 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 0 0 0
2014 Q3 10,287 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 0 0 0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 207 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 37,258 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 26,804 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2018 · 1 incident

June 29, 2018 AK · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman OTHER
Goldrich NyacAU Placer LLC · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee had prior medical conditions which according to the medical doctors caused the illness.

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The full compliance file on Little Squaw Creek

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.