Mining Incidents

Orogrande Processing Facility Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Elk Range Mining Pty Ltd
Elk City, Idaho County, ID  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1002303

Orogrande Processing Facility has $15K in proposed MSHA penalties and $246 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2022
Latest incident
Aug 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2019
18
citations
4
significant & substantial
$15,333
proposed penalties
$15,087
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $246 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
14
inspections on record
141
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: 141 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Orogrande Processing Facility has $15K in proposed MSHA penalties and $246 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.
$15K
proposed penalties
$15K
current assessed
$15K
paid to date
$246
outstanding
17 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2021-10-06.
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 141 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 220 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 81 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 208 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 197 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 42 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 290 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 296 0 0 0.0
Show 21 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 271 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 105 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 288 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 73 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 234 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 534 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 515 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 6,541 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 12,418 1 0 80.5
2021 Q3 11,750 4 2 340.4
2021 Q2 4,909 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,891 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,096 4 0 3649.6
2020 Q3 6,195 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 7,348 3 1 408.3
2020 Q1 7,679 5 1 651.1
2019 Q4 4,099 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 4,185 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 5,785 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 4,399 1 0 227.3
2018 Q4 742 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2022 · 1 incident

August 7, 2022 ID · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec OTHER
Endomines Idaho, LLC · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

Cleaning up debris outside of the Mill and stung by a Wasp

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