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: 573 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Nolan Creek Mine has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
19 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-12-06.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2007-02-16, 19 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz3
TC as EC @ 3502
TCarbon @ 3502
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (9)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2007-02-16
TC as EC @ 350
103.75
350
0.30
Complete Load-Haul-Dump
2007-02-16
TCarbon @ 350
158.63
350
0.45
Complete Load-Haul-Dump
2007-02-16
TC as EC @ 350
42.27
350
0.12
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2007-02-16
TCarbon @ 350
189.18
350
0.54
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2003-03-23
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.4
Mechanic
2003-03-23
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Supervisor, Co. Official
2003-03-23
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.25
1.19
0.21
Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2003-03-23
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.3
Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2003-03-23
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.14
Mucking Mach. 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.
Nolan Creek Mine recorded 7.16 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.
7.16
total case rate
7.16
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above 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 Alaska, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.13 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 *
7.16
7.16
0.000
2006 *
17.76
17.76
0.000
2003 *
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2010
0
2009
5
2008
11
2007
13
2006
10
2005
6
2003
31
2002
10
2001
0
2000
0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Nolan Creek Mine sits in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, where the Census mining category is 2.6% 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.
Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska · Population 95,555
2.6%
Mining share of county employment
$84,722
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
Burn on two fingers acquired while burning explosives containers. Molten plastic dripped on fingers causing blisters. Blisters broke and eventually became infected. Sent to town for treatment, and kept from work for several days. No damage to fingers.
2006 · 2 incidents
December 16, 2006AK · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scalerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Slab of frozen gravel fell out of back of work area striking employee about the knee area of the right leg; breaking lower leg in two places causing compound fractures in both breaks. The top of the foot was also broken, and the entire portion of the right lower leg badly bruised.
February 27, 2006AK · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scalerMACHINERY
ACCIDENT OCCURRED IN KITCHEN; POOR LIFTING TECHNIQUE CONTRIBUTED TO INJURY; SPRAINED SHOULDER - IMPAIRMENT UNCERTAIN. ACCIDENT BECAME REPORTABLE ON 12/23/02 UPON SECOND VISIT TO DOCTOR. TREATM ENT IS HOT & COLD COMPRESSES & MEDICATION.
WHILE CROSSING A PIPE WITH A 4 WHEEL ATV THE OPERATOR LOST CONTROL HIT THE ACCELERATOR INSTEAD OF THE BRAKE CAUSING IT TO GO UP AN EMBANKMENT OBLIQUELY AND ROLLING OVER. THE OPERATOR STRUCK TH E HGROUND WITH HIS SHOULDER FRACTURING HIS LEFT CLAVICLE.
1995 · 3 incidents
April 13, 1995AK · Metal/Non-Metalledgeman/hand, quarry manMACHINERY
EE REMOVED PROTECTIVE EYEWEAR WHILE BLOWING WELDING SLAG OFF PART USING COMPRESSED AIR. MATERIAL LODGED IN LEFT EYE.
March 10, 1995AK · Metal/Non-Metalledgeman/hand, quarry manPOWERED HAULAGE
Tri-Con Mining Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
CO-WORKER ACCIDNETLY DISENGAGED BRAKE ON UNDERGROUND MINGN VEHICLE AND EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHED AGAINST RIB.
February 9, 1995AK · Metal/Non-Metalledgeman/hand, quarry manPOWERED HAULAGE
Tri-Con Mining Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
MINER PARKED BUGGY IN HORIZONTAL DEVELOPMENT DRIFT TO ASSIST IN HANGING VENT BAG. WHILE WORKING BETWEEN BUGGY AND RIB HE ACCIDENTALLY DISENGAGED EMERGENCY BRAKE. BUGGY ROLLED AND PINNED MINER AGAINST RIB.
1994 · 3 incidents
August 19, 1994AK · Metal/Non-Metalassayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer managementHANDLING OF MATERIALS