Mining Incidents

Mountain Loop Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Barry O'Young
granite falls, Snohomish County, WA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4503484

Mountain Loop Mine has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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 2002
92
citations
9
significant & substantial
$10,795
proposed penalties
$8,664
paid to date
80% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,131 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
46
inspections on record
626
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: 626 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mountain Loop Mine has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
92 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-02.
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 2,508 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,611 2 0 766.0
2025 Q2 3,021 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,443 5 1 1452.2
2024 Q4 3,622 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,015 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,415 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,657 3 0 820.3
Show 64 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,446 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,242 2 0 616.9
2023 Q2 3,377 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3,198 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 3,144 3 0 954.2
2022 Q3 2,747 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,348 5 0 2129.5
2022 Q1 2,421 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,240 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,570 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,390 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,708 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,220 1 0 450.5
2020 Q3 2,199 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,460 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,299 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,242 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 816 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 765 3 0 3921.6
2018 Q2 916 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,520 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,204 3 0 2491.7
2012 Q4 2,555 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 3,039 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,576 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,615 1 0 619.2
2011 Q4 1,188 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,380 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 946 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 240 6 1 25000.0
2010 Q2 2,388 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1,784 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 797 1 0 1254.7
2009 Q3 773 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 821 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 726 1 0 1377.4
2008 Q4 820 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,575 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,249 6 2 4803.8
2008 Q1 2,080 3 1 1442.3
2007 Q4 1,904 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 2,281 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 3,687 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 3,774 3 1 794.9
2006 Q4 2,650 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 2,237 3 0 1341.1
2006 Q2 1,924 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,633 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 794 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,168 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,074 3 0 2793.3
2004 Q4 689 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 414 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,259 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,028 6 0 5836.6
2003 Q4 868 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,405 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,770 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 945 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,023 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,855 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 2,851 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 2,206 6 0 2719.9
2001 Q4 1,507 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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The full compliance file on Mountain Loop Mine

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.