Mining Incidents

Miller Bay Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Indianola, Kitsap County, WA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4503711

Miller Bay Pit has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties and $453 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2024
Latest incident
Feb 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2012
56
citations
17
significant & substantial
$21,829
proposed penalties
$21,376
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $453 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
38
inspections on record
521
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: 521 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Miller Bay Pit has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties and $453 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.
$22K
proposed penalties
$22K
current assessed
$21K
paid to date
$453
outstanding
56 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-18.
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 686 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 597 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 628 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 332 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 342 2 0 5848.0
2024 Q3 551 1 0 1814.9
2024 Q2 525 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 288 0 0 0.0
Show 45 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 712 1 0 1404.5
2023 Q3 896 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 767 2 1 2607.6
2023 Q1 630 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 752 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 717 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 381 3 0 7874.0
2022 Q1 546 1 0 1831.5
2021 Q4 562 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 568 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 584 1 0 1712.3
2021 Q1 599 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 569 1 0 1757.5
2020 Q3 589 2 0 3395.6
2020 Q2 629 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 544 3 1 5514.7
2019 Q4 649 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 799 2 0 2503.1
2019 Q2 674 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 502 1 0 1992.0
2018 Q4 651 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 823 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 776 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 824 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,034 1 1 967.1
2017 Q3 945 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 924 3 0 3246.8
2017 Q1 943 2 1 2120.9
2016 Q4 729 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 699 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 530 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 860 9 5 10465.1
2015 Q4 700 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 648 1 0 1543.2
2015 Q2 583 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 614 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 524 1 0 1908.4
2014 Q3 660 2 1 3030.3
2014 Q2 614 10 5 16286.6
2014 Q1 627 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 589 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 601 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 585 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 607 2 1 3294.9
2012 Q4 178 2 1 11236.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2024 · 1 incident

February 7, 2024 WA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Peninsula Topsoil LLC · Struck against a moving object

Injury; neck and back. It was like a vehicle hitting you from behind (whiplash). The D-6 Dozer was moving forward and just stopped.

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