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PART 48-F: 80 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Rock Services Inc · Surface
Controlled by Gordon Pogorelc
Rainier, Thurston County, WA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4502737

PART 48-F has $26K in proposed MSHA penalties and $10K 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
80
citations
34
significant & substantial
$25,527
proposed penalties
$10,623
paid to date
42% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $14,905 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Rock Services Inc's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
35
inspections on record
463
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: 463 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘ A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2019-10-24.
On record since 2019.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

PART 48-F has $26K in proposed MSHA penalties and $10K outstanding across 2 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.
$26K
proposed penalties
$21K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$10K
outstanding
77 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $13K in penalties contested before the Commission, $8K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-09-01.
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.
44.2%
significant & substantial
16.9%
high negligence or reckless
44.2%
reasonably likely or greater
55.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.2% low, 77.9% moderate, 16.9% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
14 citations taken to the federal commission · 18% of citations on record
  • Settled 2 · 14%
  • Stood as issued 12 · 86%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 13 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
39%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$13K proposed, $8K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2018-04-03.
Contested penalties
ⓘ 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
WEST 2008-813M Settlement Barbour 2009 $10K → $5K
WEST 2018-0308 Dismissal Miller 2018 $3K → $3K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2005-01-19, 21 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2005-01-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 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. J C O'Connor Construction Inc 1980 to 1994
  2. Rock Services Inc 1994 to present
  3. Mountain Side Sand & Gravel LLC 2018 to 2026
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2020 2
2019 3
2018 3
2009 1
2008 1
2007 2
2006 2
2005 2
2004 2
2003 2
2002 3
2001 2
2000 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

PART 48-F sits in Thurston County, Washington, 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.
Thurston County, Washington · Population 296,640
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$93,985
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
2026 Q2 434 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 8 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 125 14 9 112000.0
2018 Q2 2 2 0 1000000.0
2018 Q1 80 12 11 150000.0
2009 Q2 52 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 64 0 0 0.0
Show 35 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q4 49 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 25 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 20 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 702 3 2 4273.5
2007 Q3 690 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 734 2 2 2724.8
2007 Q1 600 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 594 10 6 16835.0
2006 Q3 637 11 3 17268.4
2006 Q2 572 2 0 3496.5
2006 Q1 533 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 610 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 628 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 588 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 582 1 0 1718.2
2004 Q4 825 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 568 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 540 1 0 1851.9
2004 Q1 560 1 0 1785.7
2003 Q4 488 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 630 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 552 1 0 1811.6
2003 Q1 504 1 0 1984.1
2002 Q4 294 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 513 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 796 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 241 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 335 2 1 5970.1
2001 Q3 351 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 300 11 0 36666.7
2001 Q1 245 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 0 2 0
2000 Q2 0 0 0
2000 Q1 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.