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MURPHY CREEK: 184 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

CPI Acquisitions LLC · Surface
MURPHY, Josephine County, OR  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3502875

MURPHY CREEK has $99K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1983–1988
Latest incident
Jul 1988
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
184
citations
42
significant & substantial
$98,614
proposed penalties
$58,779
paid to date
60% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $39,835 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
53
inspections on record
815
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: 815 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

MURPHY CREEK has $99K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 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.
$99K
proposed penalties
$59K
current assessed
$59K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
182 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.
Of $63K in penalties contested before the Commission, $20K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-25.
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.
22.8%
significant & substantial
3.3%
high negligence or reckless
22.8%
reasonably likely or greater
75.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 17.4% low, 79.3% moderate, 3.3% 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.
39 citations taken to the federal commission · 21% of citations on record
  • Settled 36 · 92%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 3 · 8%
78%
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 18 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
67%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$63K proposed, $20K 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 2011-12-22.
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 2010-1831M Settlement Barbour 2013 $53K → $14K
WEST 2008-721M Settlement Lesnick 2009 $6K → $5K
WEST 2011-798M Settlement Gilbert 2012 $2K → $1K
WEST 2011-797M Settlement Miller 2012 $2K → $947
WEST 2008-722M Settlement Lesnick 2009 $100 → $80
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: 2024-12-12
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
18
samples
8
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz8
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (18)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-12-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Shovel Operator
2020-06-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-06-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-07-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.49 1.6 0.31 Laborer, Bullgang
2010-07-21 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Crusher Oper/Worker
2010-07-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.5 2.03 0.25 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-07-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 1.21 0.16 Truck Driver
2005-04-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-04-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-04-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 1.39 0.18 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-04-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.29 1.27 0.23 Truck Driver
2003-10-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.32 1.09 0.29 Laborer, Bullgang
2003-10-09 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-10-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-10-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 1.74 0.13 Truck Driver
2001-08-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.36 1.56 0.23 Cleanup Man
2001-08-15 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.18 Truck Driver
2001-08-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
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.

MURPHY CREEK recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2007.

Injury rate, 2007
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.30 and the all-US-mining average was 3.77 cases per 100 workers.
In Oregon, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.66 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2007 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2006 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2005 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2004 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2002 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2001 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2000 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Applegate Aggregates Inc 1978 to 1983
  2. Copeland Sand & Gravel Inc 1983 to 2015
  3. Copeland Paving 2015 to 2020
  4. CPI Acquisitions LLC 2020 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 7
2025 10
2024 11
2023 13
2022 13
2021 22
2020 13
2012 6
2011 10
2010 13
2009 12
2008 11
2007 12
2006 13
2005 13
2004 13
2003 24
2002 26
2001 27
2000 27
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

MURPHY CREEK sits in Josephine County, Oregon, 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.
Josephine County, Oregon · Population 88,069
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$59,097
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
2026 Q2 1,643 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 2,788 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 2,888 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,880 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,952 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,443 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,697 2 0 741.6
2024 Q3 3,071 0 0 0.0
Show 67 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 2,971 2 0 673.2
2024 Q1 3,219 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 3,171 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,160 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,602 2 0 555.2
2023 Q1 3,752 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 3,439 2 1 581.6
2022 Q3 2,595 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,323 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,597 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,186 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 4,029 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,576 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 4,819 3 0 622.5
2020 Q4 3,313 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,735 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 750 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 0 0 0
2012 Q1 5,273 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 2,083 5 1 2400.4
2011 Q3 3,339 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 681 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 3,294 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,968 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 2,976 27 12 9072.6
2010 Q2 2,975 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 3,452 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 2,186 4 1 1829.8
2009 Q3 3,406 2 0 587.2
2009 Q2 5,552 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 4,128 14 5 3391.5
2008 Q4 2,629 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 4,861 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 4,730 28 6 5919.7
2008 Q1 4,867 12 2 2465.6
2007 Q4 4,363 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 6,242 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 5,207 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 4,866 14 7 2877.1
2006 Q4 6,276 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 6,585 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 6,869 9 1 1310.2
2006 Q1 6,524 9 2 1379.5
2005 Q4 5,702 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 8,113 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 7,250 7 0 965.5
2005 Q1 5,166 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 5,874 3 0 510.7
2004 Q3 6,865 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 7,671 1 0 130.4
2004 Q1 5,106 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 11,172 2 0 179.0
2003 Q3 14,462 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 13,133 4 0 304.6
2003 Q1 10,636 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 11,386 2 0 175.7
2002 Q3 12,052 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 12,639 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 11,473 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 12,081 1 0 82.8
2001 Q3 14,213 5 0 351.8
2001 Q2 13,701 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 12,004 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 13,386 9 2 672.3
2000 Q3 13,057 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 14,361 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 13,849 9 2 649.9
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1988 · 1 incident

July 13, 1988 OR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Copeland Sand & Gravel Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

PULLING ON V-BELT TO FREE PLUGGED CONVEYOR BELT-IT FREED UP AND CAUGHT END OF LITTLE FINGER.

1983 · 1 incident

April 11, 1983 OR · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Applegate Aggregates Inc · Fall from machine

CLIMBED OUT ON BOOM ATTACHED TO LOADER BUCKET TO UNHOOK CHAIN,FOOT SLIPPED AND HE FELL AND HEEL CAUGHT EDGE OF BUCKET LIP AND TURNED HIM UPSIDE DOWN,FELL ON HIS SHOULDER.