Mining Incidents

LUCKY 7 PIT Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Matthew James Branson
Oroville, Butte County, CA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0405086

LUCKY 7 PIT has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K 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 2000
97
citations
18
significant & substantial
$13,819
proposed penalties
$12,736
paid to date
92% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,083 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
55
inspections on record
527
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: 527 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

LUCKY 7 PIT has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K 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.
$14K
proposed penalties
$14K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
95 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-10.
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 32 2 0 62500.0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 360 4 0 11111.1
2025 Q1 120 4 0 33333.3
2024 Q4 480 3 0 6250.0
2024 Q3 480 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 140 1 0 7142.9
2024 Q1 120 0 0 0.0
Show 83 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 336 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 64 5 0 78125.0
2020 Q1 247 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 153 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 419 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 276 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 514 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 595 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 998 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,056 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 888 4 2 4504.5
2017 Q4 1,020 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,130 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,105 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 710 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 837 1 1 1194.7
2016 Q3 797 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,024 6 0 5859.4
2016 Q1 645 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,051 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,131 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,066 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 951 4 2 4206.1
2014 Q4 826 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,042 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 983 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 755 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 932 6 0 6437.8
2013 Q3 1,056 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,038 4 1 3853.6
2013 Q1 303 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 780 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,316 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,165 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 834 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,067 4 2 3748.8
2011 Q2 965 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 195 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 454 1 0 2202.6
2010 Q3 829 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 484 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 210 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 763 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 928 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 772 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 234 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 925 1 0 1081.1
2008 Q3 638 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,030 1 0 970.9
2008 Q1 921 3 0 3257.3
2007 Q4 1,379 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,606 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 2,011 1 0 497.3
2007 Q1 1,697 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,804 2 0 1108.6
2006 Q3 1,907 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,800 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,312 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,880 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,679 1 1 595.6
2005 Q2 1,474 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,332 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,624 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 511 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,678 1 0 595.9
2004 Q1 1,382 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,860 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,967 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,999 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,730 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,285 9 4 7003.9
2002 Q3 1,835 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,808 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 1,316 1 0 759.9
2001 Q4 1,489 1 0 671.6
2001 Q3 1,595 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,604 5 2 3117.2
2001 Q1 1,671 4 0 2393.8
2000 Q4 1,727 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,881 17 3 9037.7
2000 Q2 1,884 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,329 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.

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