Mining Incidents

Quail Pit: 15 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

USA Concrete, LLC · Surface
Controlled by Jeff Hines
La Grande, Union County, OR  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3503548

Quail Pit has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
15
citations
8
significant & substantial
$3,772
proposed penalties
$3,772
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2007
4
inspections on record
56
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: 56 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Quail Pit has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
15 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-09-30.
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.
53.3%
significant & substantial
13.3%
high negligence or reckless
53.3%
reasonably likely or greater
73.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 86.7% moderate, 13.3% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. USA Concrete, LLC 2001 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2008 0
2007 1
2006 0
2005 2
2004 1
2003 0
2002 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Quail Pit sits in Union County, Oregon, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Union County, Oregon · Population 26,192
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$64,212
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
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 50 13 8 260000.0
2008 Q2 0 0 0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 0 2 0
2007 Q3 556 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 0 0 0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
Show 20 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2006 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q3 0 0 0
2006 Q2 84 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 297 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 724 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 299 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 166 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 60 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 368 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 162 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2003 Q3 0 0 0
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 0 0 0
2002 Q3 0 0 0
2002 Q2 0 0 0
2002 Q1 0 0 0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.