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Owens Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Perkins Cinders Inc · Surface

Controlled by E Kay Perkins

Navajo, Navajo County, AZ  ·  Active

MSHA Mine ID: 0201092

Owens Pit has $33K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities

0

Total incidents

3

Years on record

2005–2015

Latest incident

Oct 2015

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

127

citations

40

significant & substantial

$33,126

proposed penalties

$28,637

paid to date

86% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,489 gap.

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Inspection activity

MSHA inspections since 2000

64

inspections on record

774

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: 774 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.

Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Owens Pit has $33K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition

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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.

$33K

proposed penalties

$29K

current assessed

$29K

paid to date

$0

outstanding

123 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.

As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-29.

Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

Quarterly safety rates

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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	6,716	0	0	0.0
2025 Q3	7,279	3	1	412.1
2025 Q2	6,695	0	0	0.0
2025 Q1	7,114	0	0	0.0
2024 Q4	5,675	0	0	0.0
2024 Q3	7,142	3	1	420.1
2024 Q2	9,467	0	0	0.0
2024 Q1	7,438	1	0	134.4

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Quarter	Hours worked	Citations	S&S	Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4	8,859	0	0	0.0
2023 Q3	7,671	0	0	0.0
2023 Q2	6,725	2	0	297.4
2023 Q1	5,361	0	0	0.0
2022 Q4	4,908	0	0	0.0
2022 Q3	6,214	0	0	0.0
2022 Q2	6,113	0	0	0.0
2022 Q1	6,077	2	1	329.1
2021 Q4	6,417	0	0	0.0
2021 Q3	7,926	0	0	0.0
2021 Q2	6,551	0	0	0.0
2021 Q1	6,040	0	0	0.0
2020 Q4	5,526	1	0	181.0
2020 Q3	7,205	0	0	0.0
2020 Q2	5,872	2	0	340.6
2020 Q1	6,035	0	0	0.0
2019 Q4	6,627	1	0	150.9
2019 Q3	6,295	0	0	0.0
2019 Q2	6,928	1	0	144.3
2019 Q1	4,203	0	0	0.0
2018 Q4	6,096	0	0	0.0
2018 Q3	5,377	0	0	0.0
2018 Q2	6,548	0	0	0.0
2018 Q1	4,171	0	0	0.0
2017 Q4	5,853	0	0	0.0
2017 Q3	5,048	0	0	0.0
2017 Q2	5,851	3	0	512.7
2017 Q1	4,593	0	0	0.0
2016 Q4	5,870	3	0	511.1
2016 Q3	4,773	0	0	0.0
2016 Q2	5,634	0	0	0.0
2016 Q1	4,031	0	0	0.0
2015 Q4	4,729	0	0	0.0
2015 Q3	4,130	2	1	484.3
2015 Q2	4,202	0	0	0.0
2015 Q1	3,448	0	0	0.0
2014 Q4	4,584	0	0	0.0
2014 Q3	2,778	0	0	0.0
2014 Q2	3,707	0	0	0.0
2014 Q1	2,894	0	0	0.0
2013 Q4	3,390	0	0	0.0
2013 Q3	4,230	0	0	0.0
2013 Q2	3,830	3	1	783.3
2013 Q1	2,625	0	0	0.0
2012 Q4	3,659	6	2	1639.8
2012 Q3	4,602	0	0	0.0
2012 Q2	4,146	0	0	0.0
2012 Q1	2,922	0	0	0.0
2011 Q4	3,101	1	0	322.5
2011 Q3	4,283	4	2	933.9
2011 Q2	3,577	0	0	0.0
2011 Q1	3,417	1	0	292.7
2010 Q4	3,297	0	0	0.0
2010 Q3	3,564	0	0	0.0
2010 Q2	3,445	4	1	1161.1
2010 Q1	3,227	0	0	0.0
2009 Q4	3,270	0	0	0.0
2009 Q3	3,972	0	0	0.0
2009 Q2	3,377	1	0	296.1
2009 Q1	3,622	0	0	0.0
2008 Q4	6,663	0	0	0.0
2008 Q3	8,787	0	0	0.0
2008 Q2	7,000	0	0	0.0
2008 Q1	5,943	1	0	168.3
2007 Q4	5,619	0	0	0.0
2007 Q3	6,870	0	0	0.0
2007 Q2	7,669	0	0	0.0
2007 Q1	4,772	0	0	0.0
2006 Q4	6,876	3	1	436.3
2006 Q3	6,615	1	0	151.2
2006 Q2	6,747	0	0	0.0
2006 Q1	5,416	0	0	0.0
2005 Q4	5,847	0	0	0.0
2005 Q3	4,427	7	3	1581.2
2005 Q2	6,093	0	0	0.0
2005 Q1	3,691	0	0	0.0
2004 Q4	3,697	11	2	2975.4
2004 Q3	3,191	0	0	0.0
2004 Q2	4,299	0	0	0.0
2004 Q1	3,300	0	0	0.0
2003 Q4	3,865	22	10	5692.1
2003 Q3	1,007	0	0	0.0
2003 Q2	1,105	0	0	0.0
2003 Q1	604	5	2	8278.1
2002 Q4	719	0	0	0.0
2002 Q3	672	12	5	17857.1
2002 Q2	1,615	11	3	6811.1
2002 Q1	1,818	0	0	0.0
2001 Q4	1,900	0	0	0.0
2001 Q3	2,211	0	0	0.0
2001 Q2	1,565	3	1	1916.9
2001 Q1	1,220	0	0	0.0
2000 Q4	1,799	0	0	0.0
2000 Q3	2,698	0	0	0.0
2000 Q2	2,015	0	0	0.0
2000 Q1	1,618	7	3	4326.3

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2015 · 1 incident

October 7, 2015 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY

Perkins Cinders Inc · Struck by falling object

Miner cutting metal plate and it fell on his foot

2006 · 1 incident

September 21, 2006 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY

Perkins Cinders Inc · Struck by flying object

Employee building up seal area on cone and using a grinder. A piece of steel flew into his right eye.

2005 · 1 incident

March 18, 2005 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Perkins Cinders Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE UNLOADING A STEEL BAR & THE BAR FELL ON HIS FOOT

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