Onyx Sterling Pit has $331K in proposed MSHA penalties and $308K outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2024–2026
Latest incident
Apr 2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2019
65
citations
22
significant & substantial
$331,089
proposed penalties
$23,311
paid to date
7% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $307,778 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
21
inspections on record
767
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: 767 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Onyx Sterling Pit has $331K in proposed MSHA penalties and $308K 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.
$331K
proposed penalties
$331K
current assessed
$23K
paid to date
$308K
outstanding
59 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-04-02.
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
EE had a knee injury that was exacerbated as EE was walking through the garage after putting oil canisters away in a conex box behind the garage. EE felt a tweak in EE's left knee as EE stepped. On Wednesday 4/8/26 at approx 1PM, this injury was reported to have happened at work, and that it originated while shoveling one month prior near the scalper screen.
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