Mining Incidents

Nipton Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Nipton, Clark County, NV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2600464

Nipton Pit has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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
48
citations
16
significant & substantial
$4,075
proposed penalties
$4,075
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
15
inspections on record
236
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: 236 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Nipton Pit has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
44 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-07-21.
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
2004 Q3 968 12 2 12396.7
2004 Q1 1,377 8 2 5809.7
2003 Q4 1,207 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,287 8 4 6216.0
2003 Q2 1,022 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,381 12 5 8689.4
2002 Q4 2,255 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 2,132 0 0 0.0
Show 10 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2002 Q2 2,246 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 1,497 4 2 2672.0
2001 Q4 1,431 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,822 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,267 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 1,045 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,213 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 952 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,814 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,452 4 1 2754.8

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 Nipton Pit

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.