Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher A Metal/Non-Metal

Aggregates West Inc · Surface
Controlled by David Grainger
Everson, Whatcom County, WA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4503228

Portable Crusher A has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
8
Years on record
1991–2013
Latest incident
Nov 2013
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
59
citations
16
significant & substantial
$8,877
proposed penalties
$8,877
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
29
inspections on record
403
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: 403 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher A has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 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.
$9K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
59 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-11-25.
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
2015 Q2 2,070 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 2,409 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 3,409 6 1 1760.0
2014 Q3 2,713 6 0 2211.6
2014 Q2 1,453 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,377 1 0 726.2
2013 Q4 2,099 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 3,433 0 0 0.0
Show 49 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2013 Q2 2,679 1 0 373.3
2013 Q1 1,149 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,759 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 911 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,493 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,377 1 0 726.2
2011 Q4 1,215 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 203 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 799 1 0 1251.6
2011 Q1 805 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 2,025 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 2,339 6 1 2565.2
2008 Q4 1,868 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 2,657 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 3,124 2 0 640.2
2008 Q1 1,998 1 0 500.5
2007 Q4 1,972 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 2,415 9 4 3726.7
2007 Q2 2,679 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,546 1 0 646.8
2006 Q4 1,518 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 2,586 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 2,767 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 2,293 1 0 436.1
2005 Q4 1,811 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,891 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 2,535 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,950 2 0 1025.6
2004 Q4 2,374 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 2,134 2 0 937.2
2004 Q2 2,698 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,978 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,745 7 6 2550.1
2003 Q3 3,180 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 2,277 5 2 2195.9
2003 Q1 1,688 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 4,128 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 3,438 4 1 1163.5
2002 Q2 3,324 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 2,287 1 0 437.3
2001 Q4 1,926 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 3,184 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 2,796 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 1,705 2 1 1173.0
2000 Q4 3,101 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 3,310 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 4,277 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 2,546 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

8 on file

2013 · 1 incident

November 18, 2013 WA · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man POWERED HAULAGE
Aggregates West Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee placed his left hand in door jam of loader, door wasn't securely latched which allowed the door to slam shut breaking his finger.

2005 · 1 incident

November 17, 2005 WA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Aggregates West Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Material in a cone discharge conveyor tailpully caused the belt to stop, the plant operator radioed ee to check out the belt. He climbed up on the plant grabed the drive belts to turn the conveyor backword by hand to clean the tailpulley out. As he did the plant operator started the conveyor.His thumb went arond the Vee Belt Pulley severing the tip of his thumb.

2003 · 1 incident

December 8, 2003 WA · Metal/Non-Metal

Employee sliped and fell off the Screen Deck landed wrong on his foot which resulted in a possible sprained ankle

1998 · 3 incidents

November 9, 1998 WA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Aggregates West Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS CUTTING A PIECE OF RUBBER WITH A RAZOR KNIFE. IT SLIPPED AND HE CUT HIS HAND.

September 14, 1998 WA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Aggregates West Inc · Fall from machine

LOADING ROCK CRUSHING EQUIPMENT ONTO FLAT DECK SEMI TRAILER. UNHOOKED CHAINS FROM LOAD--STEPPED AWAY AND STUMBLE ON LOOSE CHAIN ON DECK AND FELL FROM TRAILER. LANDED ON RIGHT SIDE OF BODY ON C RUSHED GRAVEL PIT FLOOR AND ROLLED TO A SITTING POSITION. BRUISED RIB CABE LEFT SIDE.

August 22, 1998 WA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Aggregates West Inc · Struck by flying object

HE WAS HAMMERING ON A PIECE OF STEEL AND SOMETHING FLEW INTO HIS EYE.

1992 · 1 incident

October 1, 1992 WA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Aggregates West Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO DISLODGE AN OVERSIZE ROCK STUCK IN THE JAW OF A ROCK CRUSHER. HE WAS PULLING ON A CHAIN AND PULLED HIS BACK OUT.

1991 · 1 incident

February 15, 1991 WA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Aggregates West Inc · Struck against a moving object

OPERATOR WAS DRIVING MACHINE OVER A FLOODED ROAD WAY AND GOT TO CLOSE TO SHOULDER. AND THE WEIGHT OF MACHINE COLLARPSTED SHOULDER CAUSING MACHINE TO TIP OVER ON ITS SIDE.

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