Prime Earth, Inc - Star: 44 MSHA citations
Metal/Non-Metal
Prime Earth, Inc - Star has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $5K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 1
- Years on record
- 2005
- Latest incident
- Dec 2005
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
7
significant & substantial
$6,225
proposed penalties
26% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,637 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 96 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 - Star has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $5K outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
43 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-02-27.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
16.3%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
16.3%
reasonably likely or greater
60.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
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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)
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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: 2005-11-17, 20 years ago
Most sampled contaminants
- Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
- Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (3)
| Date |
Contaminant |
Concentration |
Limit |
Conc / limit |
Occupation |
| 2005-11-17 |
Respirable dust, <.1mg |
0 |
|
|
Crusher Oper/Worker |
| 2005-11-17 |
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz |
0.2 |
|
|
Front-end Loader Operator |
| 2005-11-17 |
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz |
0.19 |
|
|
Front-end Loader Operator |
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
-
Prime Earth, Inc.
2005 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
| Year |
Employees |
| 2006 |
9 |
| 2005 |
1 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Prime Earth, Inc - Star sits in Ada County, Idaho, where the Census mining category is 0.1% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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
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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 |
4,340 |
19 |
3 |
4377.9 |
| 2006 Q3 |
4,187 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2006 Q1 |
3,440 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2005 Q4 |
10 |
14 |
3 |
1400000.0 |
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2005 · 1 incident
December 7, 2005
ID · Metal/Non-Metal
warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator
POWERED HAULAGE
Prime Earth, Inc. · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects
While pulling maintenance on 2" conveyor tail pulley, the icy belt that employee was standing on rolled with him pinning his right ankle between pulley & belt.