Mining Incidents

New River Plant Metal/Non-Metal

CalPortland Company · Surface
Controlled by Taiheiyo Cement Corp
Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0203367

New River Plant has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2017–2021
Latest incident
Jul 2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2018
22
citations
1
significant & substantial
$3,149
proposed penalties
$3,149
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
23
inspections on record
238
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: 238 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

New River Plant has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
22 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-10.
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 8,043 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 6,348 1 0 157.5
2025 Q2 7,752 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 7,272 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 7,681 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 5,771 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 5,591 1 0 178.9
2024 Q1 4,874 0 0 0.0
Show 29 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 6,548 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 7,791 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 7,561 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 6,791 3 0 441.8
2022 Q4 6,138 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 9,067 4 0 441.2
2022 Q2 6,676 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 6,773 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 6,080 3 0 493.4
2021 Q3 7,663 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 4,431 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 4,934 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 4,737 1 0 211.1
2020 Q3 3,581 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,857 1 0 350.0
2020 Q1 4,035 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,775 2 0 720.7
2019 Q3 3,221 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,660 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 3,117 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 2,380 2 0 840.3
2018 Q3 2,483 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,620 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,823 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,872 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,624 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,525 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,562 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 495 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2021 · 1 incident

July 29, 2021 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
CalPortland Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE was getting ready to lift a chute assembly to cone crusher when the lifting chain on the forklift inadvertently caught it moving it about 1 inch pinching EE's left index fingertip to the bone.

2017 · 1 incident

March 13, 2017 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal weighman, scale person SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
CalPortland Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was walking to scale house when EE slipped and fell spraining ankle. Area was clean, dry, and level with no housekeeping issues. Employee is not sure if was about to climb stairs or had stepped up to first step when employee fell.

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The full compliance file on New River Plant

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.