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PLANT 1: 303 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

BUCHE ROCK CRUSHING INC · Surface
Controlled by Craig Buche
Molalla, Clackamas County, OR  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3503260

PLANT 1 has $222K in proposed MSHA penalties and $9K outstanding across 32 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1999–2004
Latest incident
Nov 2004
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
303
citations
73
significant & substantial
$222,405
proposed penalties
$124,512
paid to date
56% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $97,893 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
80
inspections on record
1,227
inspection hours
24.7
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.
303 citations across 1,227 inspection hours.
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: 2021-07-14.
On record since 2021.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

PLANT 1 has $222K in proposed MSHA penalties and $9K outstanding across 32 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.
$222K
proposed penalties
$134K
current assessed
$125K
paid to date
$9K
outstanding
300 assessments are final orders; 32 contested dockets.
Of $195K in penalties contested before the Commission, $104K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-21.
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.
24.3%
significant & substantial
17.3%
high negligence or reckless
23.6%
reasonably likely or greater
67.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 1.0% none, 10.6% low, 71.1% moderate, 17.3% 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.
140 citations taken to the federal commission · 46% of citations on record
  • Settled 125 · 89%
  • Stood as issued 8 · 6%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 7 · 5%
77%
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 44 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
47%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$193K proposed, $103K 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 2024-02-12.
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 2022-0013 Settlement Miller 2022 $65K → $37K
WEST 2010-986M Settlement Barbour 2011 $33K → $13K
WEST 2020-0286 Settlement Miller 2021 $28K → $8K
WEST 2024-0050 Settlement Manning 2024 $11K → $8K
WEST 2024-0128 Settlement Manning 2024 $8K → $8K
WEST 2015-0537 Settlement Manning 2016 $6K → $4K
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: 2026-05-21
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
21
samples
9
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz7
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz7
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (21)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-05-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2026-05-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 Truck Driver
2025-01-28 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Screen/Scalper Operator
2025-01-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Screen/Scalper Operator
2020-05-12 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 1.78 10 0.18 Crusher Oper/Worker
2019-03-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2017-08-02 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.47 10 0.05 Laborer, Bullgang
2017-08-02 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.58 10 0.06 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-09-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.64 2.56 0.25 Crusher Oper/Worker
2013-09-10 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 2.21 Crusher Oper/Worker
2009-10-28 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.56 Laborer, Bullgang
2009-10-28 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.16 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-10-28 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.32 Laborer, Bullgang
2006-02-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.44 2.24 0.20 Front-end Loader Operator
2006-02-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.48 1.59 0.93 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-05-12 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.33 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-05-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-05-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.97 2.21 0.44 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-03-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.32 1.17 0.27 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-03-27 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-03-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.29 0.88 0.33 Crusher Oper/Worker
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. Hanson Rock Crushing Inc 1986 to 2002
  2. Harvey W Buche Road Building Inc 2002 to 2018
  3. Earl Buche Investments, Inc 2018 to 2019
  4. BUCHE ROCK CRUSHING INC 2019 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 7
2025 7
2024 7
2023 9
2022 12
2021 12
2020 11
2019 7
2018 8
2017 4
2016 4
2015 4
2014 6
2013 5
2012 4
2011 5
2010 3
2009 4
2008 4
2007 3
2006 4
2005 4
2004 4
2003 4
2002 3
2001 3
2000 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

PLANT 1 sits in Clackamas County, Oregon, 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.
Clackamas County, Oregon · Population 422,308
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$100,360
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 2,331 2 0 858.0
2026 Q1 2,331 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 3,022 2 1 661.8
2025 Q3 2,891 1 0 345.9
2025 Q2 2,652 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,714 2 1 736.9
2024 Q4 2,665 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,515 0 0 0.0
Show 91 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 3,114 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,291 2 0 607.7
2023 Q4 3,498 10 1 2858.8
2023 Q3 3,821 17 3 4449.1
2023 Q2 4,598 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 4,533 6 1 1323.6
2022 Q4 3,700 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3,969 4 0 1007.8
2022 Q2 5,340 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,599 7 0 1945.0
2021 Q4 3,108 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,702 7 3 1890.9
2021 Q2 3,592 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 3,456 5 1 1446.8
2020 Q4 3,650 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 4,781 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,449 5 0 1449.7
2020 Q1 2,977 10 1 3359.1
2019 Q4 1,983 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,690 10 3 5917.2
2019 Q2 1,419 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 2,020 11 0 5445.5
2018 Q4 3,660 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,148 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,569 2 1 1274.7
2018 Q1 1,422 1 1 703.2
2017 Q4 1,294 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,472 1 0 679.3
2017 Q2 1,751 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,583 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 907 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,503 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,549 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,367 2 0 1463.1
2015 Q4 1,613 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,851 6 1 3241.5
2015 Q2 2,022 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 2,315 6 1 2591.8
2014 Q4 2,281 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,487 9 0 3618.8
2014 Q2 2,266 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 2,503 7 0 2796.6
2013 Q4 1,388 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,527 11 3 4353.0
2013 Q2 3,114 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 2,156 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,211 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,081 3 0 1441.6
2012 Q2 2,016 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 15 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 2,322 4 2 1722.7
2011 Q3 2,295 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,828 4 3 2188.2
2011 Q1 1,150 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,314 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 2,058 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q1 1,622 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 2,116 13 8 6143.7
2009 Q3 1,737 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,890 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1,345 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,547 4 1 2585.6
2008 Q3 1,808 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,678 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,416 8 2 5649.7
2007 Q4 1,258 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,273 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,571 8 4 5092.3
2007 Q1 1,260 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,223 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,399 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,791 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,511 3 0 1985.4
2005 Q4 1,847 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 2,033 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,983 10 2 5042.9
2005 Q1 1,904 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,770 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,941 21 6 10819.2
2004 Q2 1,937 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,543 16 6 10369.4
2003 Q4 1,802 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 2,128 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,791 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,379 8 1 5801.3
2002 Q2 1,440 22 7 15277.8
2001 Q4 1,140 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,090 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 2,870 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 2,752 22 8 7994.2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2004 · 1 incident

November 5, 2004 OR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Harvey W Buche Road Building Inc · Fall onto or against objects

EE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF DISLODGING A PIECE OF IRON FROM JAW WHEN HE SLIPPED.

1999 · 1 incident

November 17, 1999 OR · Metal/Non-Metal beltman, conveyor man, conveyor belt worker, mobile bridge carrierman, feeder operator, conveyor rider POWERED HAULAGE
Hanson Rock Crushing Inc · Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects

HE WAS CLEANING A RETURN ROLLER WENT HIS GLOVE GOT GOT IN ROLLER BELT CAUSING CUT ON HIS FINGER.