Mining Incidents

Prime Earth, Inc - Star Metal/Non-Metal

Prime Earth, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Bruce A Patterson
Star, Ada County, ID  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1002076

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
44
citations
7
significant & substantial
$6,225
proposed penalties
$1,588
paid to date
26% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,637 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
9
inspections on record
96
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: 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
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
$2K
paid to date
$5K
outstanding
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.
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 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.

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