Mining Incidents

Live Oak Quarry: 4 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Daniels Equipment Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Michael Daniels
Buellton, Santa Barbara County, CA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0405831

Live Oak Quarry has $535 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 2017
4
citations
0
significant & substantial
$535
proposed penalties
$535
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
11
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.

Live Oak Quarry has $535 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.
$535
proposed penalties
$535
current assessed
$535
paid to date
$0
outstanding
4 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-08-21.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
50.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
0.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 25.0% low, 25.0% moderate, 50.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Daniels Equipment Inc. 2011 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2025 2
2024 2
2023 4
2022 3
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 1
2017 2
2016 1
2015 1
2014 1
2013 2
2012 2
2011 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Live Oak Quarry sits in Santa Barbara County, California, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Santa Barbara County, California · Population 443,975
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$95,977
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, 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 Q1 83 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 75 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 354 2 0 5649.7
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 652 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 174 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 90 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 20 0 0 0.0
Show 35 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q3 82 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 123 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 158 1 0 6329.1
2020 Q3 24 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 192 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 50 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 190 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 72 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q2 452 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 274 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 363 1 0 2754.8
2017 Q3 65 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 528 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 62 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 60 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 38 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 155 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 182 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 170 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 143 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 97 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 170 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 58 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 40 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 114 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 156 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 247 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 179 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 58 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 180 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 40 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 286 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 319 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 216 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.