Mining Incidents

Pacific States Plant #1: 24 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Christopher B Smith
Murrieta, Riverside County, CA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0405534

Pacific States Plant #1 has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2002
24
citations
1
significant & substantial
$2,191
proposed penalties
$2,191
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
26
inspections on record
229
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: 229 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Pacific States Plant #1 has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
24 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2018-09-11.
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.
4.2%
significant & substantial
16.7%
high negligence or reckless
4.2%
reasonably likely or greater
25.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 20.8% low, 62.5% moderate, 16.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2009-10-08, 16 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
3
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2009-10-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-04-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-01-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 0.93 0.19 Front-end Loader 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.
Ownership history
  1. Pacific States Transportation 2002 to 2009
  2. Pacific States Transportation 2009 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2018 1
2017 1
2016 1
2015 1
2014 1
2011 1
2010 1
2009 1
2008 2
2007 2
2006 2
2005 2
2004 1
2003 2
2002 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Pacific States Plant #1 sits in Riverside County, California, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Riverside County, California · Population 2,449,909
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$89,672
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
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 0 1 0
2018 Q2 25 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 20 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 120 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 192 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 290 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
Show 45 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2016 Q4 90 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 519 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 530 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 288 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 535 2 0 3738.3
2015 Q1 487 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 400 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 524 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 556 3 1 5395.7
2014 Q1 128 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 538 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 737 2 0 2713.7
2010 Q2 632 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 482 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 570 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 513 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 584 2 0 3424.7
2009 Q1 453 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 555 1 0 1801.8
2008 Q3 600 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 612 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,022 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,261 2 0 1586.0
2007 Q3 1,637 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,409 1 0 709.7
2007 Q1 1,399 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,503 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,347 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,392 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,473 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 2,078 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 2,283 3 0 1314.1
2005 Q2 1,463 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 601 1 0 1663.9
2004 Q4 781 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 784 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 816 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 769 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,064 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,478 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,142 3 0 2627.0
2003 Q1 891 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 644 2 0 3105.6
2002 Q3 89 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.