Lodestar Gold Hill Mine has $1K 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
8
Years on record
2003–2004
Latest incident
Jul 2004
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
24
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,476
proposed penalties
$1,476
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
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: 276 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Lodestar Gold Hill Mine has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
24 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2006-03-02.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘA sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.
Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘMany samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2004-08-19, 22 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Total Carbon,calculated from elemental carbon.2
Total Carbon,TC2
Show the individual readings (6)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2004-08-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.44
0.75
0.59
Ball Mill Operator
2004-08-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.19
0.77
0.25
Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-11-26
Total Carbon,calculated from elemental carbon.
15.75
400
0.04
Miner, Drift
2002-11-26
Total Carbon,TC
30.64
400
0.08
Miner, Drift
2002-11-26
Total Carbon,calculated from elemental carbon.
15.5
400
0.04
Mucking Mach. Operator
2002-11-26
Total Carbon,TC
267.51
400
0.67
Mucking Mach. Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Lodestar Gold Hill Mine recorded 14.86 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2003.
Injury rate, 2003
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
14.86
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.43 cases per 100 workers.
In Montana, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 6.39 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2006
2
2005
6
2004
11
2003
20
2002
16
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Lodestar Gold Hill Mine sits in Sweet Grass County, Montana, where the Census mining category is 7.2% 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.
Sweet Grass County, Montana · Population 3,713
7.2%
Mining share of county employment
$69,426
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
2006 Q4
1,040
0
0
0.0
2006 Q3
1,040
0
0
0.0
2006 Q2
1,040
0
0
0.0
2006 Q1
1,120
3
0
2678.6
2005 Q4
532
0
0
0.0
2005 Q3
2,991
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
2,870
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
2,981
4
0
1341.8
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2004 Q4
3,049
3
0
983.9
2004 Q3
4,228
6
0
1419.1
2004 Q2
2,897
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
6,182
0
0
0.0
2003 Q4
9,665
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
12,072
6
1
497.0
2003 Q2
12,072
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
6,560
1
0
152.4
2002 Q4
10,657
1
0
93.8
2002 Q3
789
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
4,004
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
8 on file
2004 · 5 incidents
July 6, 2004MT · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
TIGHTENING DOWN A NUT WITH A CRESENT WRENCH, THE WRENCH SLIPPED OFF THE NUT RESULTING IN A CUT TO HAND. EMPLOYEE SOUGHT MEDICAL CARE: RECEIVED 5 STITCHES AND ANTIBIOTICS.
EMPLOYEE WAS INTERMITTENTLY EXPOSED TO SULFUR DIOXIDE DUE TO FLUCTUATON IN WIND DIRECTION AND SPEED. EMPLOYEE REMOVED RESPIRATOR INTERMITTENTLY TO TALK DURING START-UP TRIALS OF ROASTER.
January 20, 2004MT · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorMACHINERY
Over exposure to u.v. rays. A 1000 watt mercury vapor flood light outer shell broke and inner shell continued to burn. All employees in the area received burns on skin as well as eye irritation.
January 20, 2004MT · Metal/Non-Metalassayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer managementMACHINERY
Over exposure to u.v. rays. A 1000 watt mercury vapor flood light outer shell broke and inner shell continued to burn. All workers in the area received burns on skin as well as eye irritation.
January 20, 2004MT · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorMACHINERY
Over exposure to u.v. rays. A 100 watt mercury vapor flood light outer shell broke and inner shell continued to burn. All employees in the area received burns as well as eye irritation.