Mining Incidents

Lovelady-1: 45 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Lovelady Trucking & Material Inc · Surface
Controlled by Mark T Lovelady
Highland, San Bernardino County, CA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0405513

Lovelady-1 has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $208 outstanding across 2 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 2002
45
citations
12
significant & substantial
$13,353
proposed penalties
$13,145
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $208 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
24
inspections on record
232
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: 232 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Lovelady-1 has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $208 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.
$13K
proposed penalties
$13K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$208
outstanding
45 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $3K in penalties contested before the Commission, $3K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-11-09.
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.
26.7%
significant & substantial
26.7%
high negligence or reckless
26.7%
reasonably likely or greater
44.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 4.4% low, 68.9% moderate, 26.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
6 citations taken to the federal commission · 13% of citations on record
  • Settled 5 · 83%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 17%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 3 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$3K proposed, $3K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2008-12-31.
Contested penalties
A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
WEST 2009-332M Settlement Lesnick 2009 $2K → $2K
WEST 2005-95M Dismissal Lesnick 2005 $191 → $191
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2009-04-01, 17 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
3
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2009-04-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 0.45 0.47 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-06-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-06-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
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.
Ownership history
  1. Lovelady Trucking & Material Inc 2002 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2011 0
2010 1
2009 2
2008 2
2007 2
2006 2
2005 2
2004 2
2003 0
2002 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Lovelady-1 sits in San Bernardino County, California, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
San Bernardino County, California · Population 2,187,816
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$82,184
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
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 240 2 1 8333.3
2010 Q3 480 1 0 2083.3
2010 Q2 240 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,040 4 1 3846.2
2009 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
Show 25 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2009 Q1 748 1 0 1336.9
2008 Q4 1,128 5 2 4432.6
2008 Q3 1,304 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,289 4 3 3103.2
2008 Q1 1,200 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,200 1 0 833.3
2007 Q3 1,200 6 3 5000.0
2007 Q2 1,200 3 0 2500.0
2007 Q1 1,200 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,200 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,200 1 1 833.3
2006 Q2 1,200 11 0 9166.7
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 452 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 940 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 876 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 875 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 862 3 0 3480.3
2004 Q3 840 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 820 2 1 2439.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2003 Q3 0 0 0
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2002 Q4 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.