Queen Creek Plant #42 has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Years on record
1997–2004
Latest incident
Dec 2004
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
39
citations
6
significant & substantial
$4,833
proposed penalties
$4,676
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $157 gap.
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: 244 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Queen Creek Plant #42 has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
38 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $629 in penalties contested before the Commission, $472 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-04-14.
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.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
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: 2003-05-08, 23 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2003-05-08
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.34
2.08
0.16
Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-05-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2003-05-08
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.41
1.36
0.30
Truck Driver
2003-05-08
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.23
1.61
0.14
Welder, etc.
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.
Queen Creek Plant #42 recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2007.
Injury rate, 2007
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.30 and the all-US-mining average was 3.77 cases per 100 workers.
In Arizona, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.93 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2007 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2006 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2005 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2004 *
7.13
0.00
0.000
2003 *
17.16
0.00
0.000
2002 *
7.66
0.00
0.000
2001 *
6.80
6.80
0.000
2000 *
11.73
11.73
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2011
1
2010
1
2009
1
2008
6
2007
9
2006
12
2005
13
2004
11
2003
10
2002
20
2001
19
2000
11
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Queen Creek Plant #42 sits in Pinal County, Arizona, where the Census mining category is 0.8% 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.
Pinal County, Arizona · Population 449,219
0.8%
Mining share of county employment
$77,588
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
2011 Q2
6
0
0
0.0
2011 Q1
758
0
0
0.0
2010 Q4
30
0
0
0.0
2010 Q3
240
0
0
0.0
2010 Q2
4
3
0
750000.0
2010 Q1
12
0
0
0.0
2009 Q4
12
0
0
0.0
2009 Q3
13
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2009 Q2
8
0
0
0.0
2009 Q1
164
0
0
0.0
2008 Q4
953
0
0
0.0
2008 Q3
734
0
0
0.0
2008 Q2
2,762
0
0
0.0
2008 Q1
5,301
1
0
188.6
2007 Q4
5,943
0
0
0.0
2007 Q3
6,881
12
0
1743.9
2007 Q2
5,324
0
0
0.0
2007 Q1
4,185
0
0
0.0
2006 Q4
5,644
0
0
0.0
2006 Q3
6,226
2
0
321.2
2006 Q2
7,278
0
0
0.0
2006 Q1
6,210
0
0
0.0
2005 Q4
6,806
3
0
440.8
2005 Q3
9,033
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
6,960
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
5,567
0
0
0.0
2004 Q4
7,435
1
1
134.5
2004 Q3
7,983
0
0
0.0
2004 Q2
7,003
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
5,621
1
0
177.9
2003 Q4
5,834
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
5,497
0
0
0.0
2003 Q2
6,252
9
3
1439.5
2003 Q1
5,727
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
7,218
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
6,676
3
0
449.4
2002 Q2
6,878
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
5,338
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
7,419
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
7,733
2
2
258.6
2001 Q2
7,105
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
7,163
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
6,098
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
12,656
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
8,255
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
7,095
2
0
281.9
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
10 on file
2004 · 1 incident
December 4, 2004AZ · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
The employee placed a ladder against a conveyor with the top into the framework. When he was climbing the ladder to tie it off it slipped out from underneath him. He was 3/4 of the way up the ladder when it slipped & he fell approx. 8' to the concrete pad suffering a compound fracture to his arm, contusions to his ribs & a fracture in his foot.
JAW CRUSHER WAS NOT TAKING FULL FEED. EE EXITED LOADER TO CHECK CRUSHER CHAMBER AND AFTER NOTICING A TREE ROOT INSIDE, CLIMBED DOWN, LOCKED IT OUT AND CLIMBED BACK UP ON PLATFORM TO FREE ROOT. HE HAD DIFFICULTY, SO CLIMBED IN JAW AND SLID DOWN, CATCHING BOOT AND LODGING LEF IN JAW. TWISTED LEFT KNEE AND HEARD IT POP.
1998 · 1 incident
March 5, 1998AZ · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS