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: 308 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Prime Earth Inc has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 0 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
67 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-09-04.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2003-09-17, 22 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
5
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg3
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (5)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2003-09-17
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.31
0.56
0.55
Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-09-17
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.22
1.15
0.19
Front-end Loader Operator
2002-12-12
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2002-12-12
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2002-12-12
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2006
4
2005
10
2004
7
2003
6
2002
7
2001
8
2000
8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Prime Earth Inc sits in Ada County, Idaho, 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.
Ada County, Idaho · Population 508,052
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$88,907
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
2006 Q4
0
1
0
2006 Q1
2,426
4
0
1648.8
2005 Q3
4,946
8
2
1617.5
2005 Q2
4,685
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
4,321
6
2
1388.6
2004 Q3
3,897
8
4
2052.9
2004 Q2
3,919
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
2,410
6
1
2489.6
Show 16 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2003 Q4
3,577
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
3,414
1
1
292.9
2003 Q2
3,479
2
0
574.9
2003 Q1
2,384
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
3,191
4
1
1253.5
2002 Q3
4,636
6
2
1294.2
2002 Q2
3,844
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
3,503
7
3
1998.3
2001 Q4
3,259
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
4,583
1
1
218.2
2001 Q2
4,250
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
3,067
8
1
2608.4
2000 Q4
3,822
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
3,652
2
2
547.6
2000 Q2
4,447
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
4,494
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
5 on file
2006 · 1 incident
March 22, 2006ID · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
PUNCHING HOLE IN A PIECE OF BELTING WITH HAMMER & HOLE PUNCH. HOLE PUNCH BOUNCED UP & CAME DOWN ON LEFT INSIDE OF HAND, BEFORE EE REALIZED IT WAS ON HIS HAND, HE HIT IT WITH THE HAMMER AGAIN, CAUSING A HOLE IN THE SIDE OF HIS HAND (LEFT).
2002 · 1 incident
November 14, 2002ID · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorMACHINERY
DUMPING A LOAD OF FILLDIRT, THE TRUCK WAS JACK-KNIFED AND THE LEFT REAR TRAILER TIRE WAS DOWN IN SMALL IMPRESSION. HE STARTED TO LIFT THE BED AND THE TRAILER TIPPED OVER.