Mining Incidents

Northern Gravel & Trucking: 94 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Northern Gravel & Trucking LLC · Surface
Butte, Matanuska-Susitna County, AK  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 5001649

Northern Gravel & Trucking has $27K in proposed MSHA penalties and $27K 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 2000
94
citations
38
significant & substantial
$27,099
proposed penalties
$373
paid to date
1% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $26,726 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
28
inspections on record
407
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: 407 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Northern Gravel & Trucking has $27K in proposed MSHA penalties and $27K 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.
$27K
proposed penalties
$27K
current assessed
$373
paid to date
$27K
outstanding
91 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-02-18.
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.
40.4%
significant & substantial
18.5%
high negligence or reckless
39.1%
reasonably likely or greater
72.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.4% low, 76.1% moderate, 18.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Baxter Inc. 1999 to 2016
  2. Northern Gravel & Trucking LLC 2016 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 1
2024 1
2022 1
2021 0
2020 1
2019 1
2018 1
2017 1
2007 3
2006 2
2005 3
2004 1
2003 2
2002 6
2001 6
2000 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Northern Gravel & Trucking sits in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, where the Census mining category is 3.1% 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.
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska · Population 110,677
3.1%
Mining share of county employment
$90,625
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 Q1 471 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 610 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 776 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 585 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 410 4 0 9756.1
2024 Q4 711 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 665 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 580 0 0 0.0
Show 49 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q1 273 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 220 18 6 81818.2
2022 Q2 220 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 480 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q3 80 2 0 25000.0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 240 4 2 16666.7
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 240 17 5 70833.3
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q2 145 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 460 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,063 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 782 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 18 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 417 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 2,380 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 984 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q3 0 5 4
2004 Q2 2 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2003 Q3 2 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 806 31 17 38461.5
2003 Q1 528 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,298 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,806 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,218 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 1,377 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,986 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 4,288 5 0 1166.0
2001 Q2 986 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,040 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 3,120 2 2 641.0
2000 Q2 2,080 6 2 2884.6
2000 Q1 5 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.