Mining Incidents

Peru Plant Metal/Non-Metal

U.S. Silica Company · Facility
Controlled by USS Holdings Inc
Peru, La Salle County, IL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1103269

Peru Plant has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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 2014
23
citations
11
significant & substantial
$3,441
proposed penalties
$2,909
paid to date
85% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $532 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
11
inspections on record
100
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: 100 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Peru Plant has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
22 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2018-07-30.
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
2018 Q2 10,479 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 9,267 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 9,037 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 8,238 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 8,436 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 3,707 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 0 0 0
2016 Q3 0 0 0
Show 10 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 1,710 2 0 1169.6
2015 Q4 2,570 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,180 7 7 3211.0
2015 Q2 2,000 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 10,581 3 0 283.5
2014 Q4 5,490 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 6,307 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 6,042 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,886 5 0 2651.1

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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