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Lucerne Valley Metal/Non-Metal

Robertson's · Surface
Lucerne Valley, San Bernardino County, CA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0405690

Lucerne Valley has $43K 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
6
Years on record
2006–2023
Latest incident
Feb 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
102
citations
21
significant & substantial
$43,414
proposed penalties
$40,800
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,614 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
54
inspections on record
899
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: 899 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Lucerne Valley has $43K 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.
$43K
proposed penalties
$41K
current assessed
$41K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
102 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-18.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
See also the operator's enforcement record
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 5,884 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 7,220 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 5,189 1 0 192.7
2025 Q1 2,849 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,262 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,451 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,597 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,120 0 0 0.0
Show 70 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 5,864 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 6,573 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 5,779 1 0 173.0
2023 Q1 6,599 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 7,846 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 5,939 1 1 168.4
2022 Q2 6,140 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 7,278 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 6,958 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 6,895 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 6,939 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 6,347 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 7,736 3 0 387.8
2020 Q3 6,964 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 5,804 2 1 344.6
2020 Q1 5,081 1 1 196.8
2019 Q4 4,502 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,467 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 4,172 3 1 719.1
2019 Q1 3,603 2 0 555.1
2018 Q4 4,160 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,917 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 4,551 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 4,031 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 3,257 1 0 307.0
2017 Q3 3,374 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,676 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 3,391 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 3,449 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 3,438 2 0 581.7
2016 Q2 3,645 3 0 823.0
2016 Q1 3,604 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 2,499 2 0 800.3
2015 Q3 3,204 1 1 312.1
2015 Q2 2,968 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,561 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,833 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,512 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 2,517 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 3,237 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 3,825 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 4,402 1 0 227.2
2013 Q2 3,772 2 0 530.2
2013 Q1 2,576 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 3,270 2 1 611.6
2012 Q3 3,649 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 5,024 1 0 199.0
2012 Q1 3,227 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 4,135 4 1 967.4
2011 Q3 4,478 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,951 1 1 338.9
2011 Q1 1,891 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 2,499 4 2 1600.6
2010 Q3 1,559 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,103 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1,079 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,596 3 1 1879.7
2009 Q3 1,632 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 3,399 6 1 1765.2
2009 Q1 5,260 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 7,078 10 1 1412.8
2008 Q3 8,107 3 2 370.1
2008 Q2 12,685 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 15,809 5 3 316.3
2007 Q4 14,433 10 0 692.9
2007 Q3 15,640 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 12,784 8 1 625.8
2007 Q1 11,510 11 1 955.7
2006 Q4 13,505 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 7,268 8 1 1100.7
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2023 · 1 incident

February 16, 2023 CA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Robertson's · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Miner has had an audiometric standard threshold shift in R-ear, pending retest, which results won't be available within the 10-day reporting criteria. Miner stated hobbies as music and guns, and worked with hearing protection directly before the initial test was performed.

2020 · 1 incident

March 4, 2020 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Robertson's · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Manual Labor, shoveling, clean up. Miner has a left inguinal hernia.

2019 · 1 incident

November 12, 2019 CA · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Robertson's · Fall to the walkway or working surface

miner tripped and fell injuring EE's right shoulder, right shoulder contusion injury

2013 · 1 incident

April 17, 2013 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Robertson's · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The primary jaw had bridged over causing rocks to overflow the jaw. The injured miner was cleaning rocks off the deck and misjudged the distance between the rock in his hand and another rock. The result was a broken left index finger.

2006 · 2 incidents

November 7, 2006 CA · Metal/Non-Metal assistant mine foreman, assistant mine manager SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Robertson's · Fall from machine

EE was inside the cone crusher inspecting the crusher for a problem and opened the hatch door to let some fresh air into the inspection area, after several minutes he forgot the hatch was open and leaned back and fell through the door and fell approximately 10 feet.

August 19, 2006 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Robertson's · Struck by falling object

Employee fabricated a lifting device out of steel to lift a sheave for a v-belt drive assembly, upon lifting the sheave one of his weld broke and the sheave dropped a couple feet hitting the ground and rolling over his right foot, thus he incurred a bruised right foot needing a few days to recover.

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