Mining Incidents

Phoenix Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Marvin J Struiksma
Avondale, Maricopa County, AZ  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0203313

Phoenix has $36K in proposed MSHA penalties and $123 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2013
Latest incident
Oct 2013
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2013
100
citations
23
significant & substantial
$35,539
proposed penalties
$35,136
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $403 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2013
44
inspections on record
518
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: 518 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Phoenix has $36K in proposed MSHA penalties and $123 outstanding across 3 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.
$36K
proposed penalties
$35K
current assessed
$35K
paid to date
$123
outstanding
97 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-06.
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
2025 Q4 8,277 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 8,382 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 8,278 7 3 845.6
2025 Q1 7,743 2 1 258.3
2024 Q4 8,778 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 8,642 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 9,558 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 10,206 0 0 0.0
Show 44 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 10,079 1 1 99.2
2023 Q3 7,206 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 8,552 4 0 467.7
2023 Q1 8,607 1 0 116.2
2022 Q4 7,744 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 8,044 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 6,655 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 6,189 4 0 646.3
2021 Q4 6,280 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 5,537 2 0 361.2
2021 Q2 5,687 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 5,261 1 0 190.1
2020 Q4 5,244 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 5,544 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 5,423 3 0 553.2
2020 Q1 4,748 1 0 210.6
2019 Q4 5,137 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 5,637 2 0 354.8
2019 Q2 5,211 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 4,602 8 2 1738.4
2018 Q4 5,169 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,687 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 5,407 9 0 1664.5
2018 Q1 4,743 3 0 632.5
2017 Q4 4,281 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 4,368 6 1 1373.6
2017 Q2 4,673 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 4,081 5 1 1225.2
2016 Q4 4,065 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 3,721 3 1 806.2
2016 Q2 4,906 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 4,195 5 2 1191.9
2015 Q4 3,306 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 3,429 9 5 2624.7
2015 Q2 3,412 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 2,454 6 2 2445.0
2014 Q4 2,155 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,258 4 1 3179.7
2014 Q2 1,658 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,616 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,091 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,010 3 0 1492.5
2013 Q2 2,047 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 4,842 1 1 206.5
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2013 · 1 incident

October 4, 2013 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec OTHER
West Coast Sand & Gravel, Inc. · Unclassified, insufficient data

This was not an accident/injury/illness. This was a suicide in the storage area away from the mine site.

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