What are Pahrump Valley Gravel's MSHA penalties?

Pahrump Valley Gravel has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, with $45 currently outstanding across 2 contested dockets.

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Pahrump Valley Gravel: 91 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Pahrump Valley Gravel · Surface

Controlled by Ronald R Murphy

Pahrump, Nye County, NV · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 2602181

Pahrump Valley Gravel has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $45 outstanding across 2 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

citations

significant & substantial

$17,403

proposed penalties

$16,345

paid to date

94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,058 gap.

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Inspection activity

MSHA inspections since 2000

inspections on record

317

inspection hours

n/a

citations per 100 inspection hours

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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.

Rate withheld: 317 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.

Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

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.

$17K

proposed penalties

$16K

current assessed

$16K

paid to date

$45

outstanding

91 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.

Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2020-06-09.

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

Violation severity profile

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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.

26.4%

significant & substantial

7.7%

high negligence or reckless

26.4%

reasonably likely or greater

50.5%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 1.1% none, 6.6% low, 84.6% moderate, 7.7% high, 0.0% reckless.

Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.

Contested penalties

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A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.

Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.

Docket	Decision	Judge	Year	Proposed / upheld
WEST20020257M	Settlement	Bulluck	2002	$2K → $800
WEST20020363M	Settlement	Barbour	2002	$314 → $283

Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

Health sampling

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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)

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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: 2017-04-20, 9 years ago

of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit

samples

limit-tested

Most sampled contaminants

Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Respirable dust, <.1mg3

Show the individual readings (6)

Date	Contaminant	Concentration	Limit	Conc / limit	Occupation
2017-04-20	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.16	0.91	0.18	Front-end Loader Operator
2017-04-20	Respirable dust, <.1mg	0			Bulldozer Operator
2005-10-17	Respirable dust, <.1mg	0			Bulldozer Operator
2005-10-17	Respirable dust, <.1mg	0			Front-end Loader Operator
2002-05-16	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.56	1.39	0.40	Bulldozer Operator
2002-05-16	Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz	0.12	0.92	0.13	Screen/Scalper 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

Pahrump Valley Gravel 1991 to present

Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Workforce and production

Year	Employees
2022	1
2021	1
2020	1
2019	2
2018	1
2017	3
2016	2
2015	2
2009	0
2008	2
2007	2
2006	2
2005	2
2004	2
2003	2
2002	2
2001	2
2000	2

Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Local economic context

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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.

Nye County, Nevada · Population 53,207

7.3%

Mining share of county employment

$55,975

Median household income

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

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
2022 Q4	16	0	0	0.0
2022 Q1	0	0	0
2021 Q4	0	0	0
2021 Q3	32	0	0	0.0
2021 Q2	48	0	0	0.0
2020 Q3	24	0	0	0.0
2020 Q2	0	5	1
2020 Q1	0	0	0

Show 54 earlier quarters

Quarter	Hours worked	Citations	S&S	Per 1M hrs
2019 Q4	0	0	0
2019 Q3	16	0	0	0.0
2019 Q2	112	0	0	0.0
2019 Q1	296	0	0	0.0
2018 Q4	160	0	0	0.0
2018 Q3	0	0	0
2018 Q2	68	0	0	0.0
2018 Q1	0	0	0
2017 Q4	72	0	0	0.0
2017 Q3	8	0	0	0.0
2017 Q2	8	6	2	750000.0
2017 Q1	15	0	0	0.0
2016 Q4	64	0	0	0.0
2016 Q3	48	0	0	0.0
2016 Q2	0	0	0
2016 Q1	120	9	3	75000.0
2015 Q4	48	0	0	0.0
2009 Q1	0	0	0
2008 Q4	0	0	0
2008 Q3	80	0	0	0.0
2008 Q2	391	0	0	0.0
2008 Q1	328	0	0	0.0
2007 Q4	645	6	1	9302.3
2007 Q3	668	0	0	0.0
2007 Q2	785	0	0	0.0
2007 Q1	531	16	3	30131.8
2006 Q4	495	0	0	0.0
2006 Q3	397	0	0	0.0
2006 Q2	569	0	0	0.0
2006 Q1	479	0	0	0.0
2005 Q4	545	12	4	22018.3
2005 Q3	487	0	0	0.0
2005 Q2	391	0	0	0.0
2005 Q1	480	2	0	4166.7
2004 Q4	511	0	0	0.0
2004 Q3	520	0	0	0.0
2004 Q2	380	0	0	0.0
2004 Q1	484	5	2	10330.6
2003 Q4	268	0	0	0.0
2003 Q3	202	3	0	14851.5
2003 Q2	315	0	0	0.0
2003 Q1	156	0	0	0.0
2002 Q4	156	0	0	0.0
2002 Q3	156	0	0	0.0
2002 Q2	156	7	2	44871.8
2002 Q1	380	4	1	10526.3
2001 Q4	325	0	0	0.0
2001 Q3	375	0	0	0.0
2001 Q2	350	5	3	14285.7
2001 Q1	325	1	0	3076.9
2000 Q4	335	0	0	0.0
2000 Q3	335	10	2	29850.7
2000 Q2	581	0	0	0.0
2000 Q1	400	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.

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Pahrump Valley Gravel has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $45 outstanding across 2 contested dockets.

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.

Pahrump Valley Gravel sits in Nye County, Nevada, where the Census mining category is 7.3% of county employment.

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Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)

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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.