Mining Incidents

Rainbow Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Rainbow Enterprises · Surface
Controlled by Kerry Drew
Greenough, Missoula County, MT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2401998

Rainbow Pit has $29K in proposed MSHA penalties and $7K outstanding across 1 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 2001
84
citations
33
significant & substantial
$28,776
proposed penalties
$21,388
paid to date
74% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $7,388 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
24
inspections on record
221
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: 221 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Rainbow Pit has $29K in proposed MSHA penalties and $7K 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.
$29K
proposed penalties
$29K
current assessed
$21K
paid to date
$7K
outstanding
80 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-11-09.
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
2011 Q2 31 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 262 2 0 7633.6
2010 Q2 219 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 3 1 0 333333.3
2007 Q3 0 0 0
2007 Q1 820 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 273 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 527 4 0 7590.1
Show 15 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2006 Q2 355 4 0 11267.6
2006 Q1 278 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 306 2 0 6535.9
2005 Q3 527 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 247 10 8 40485.8
2005 Q1 193 1 0 5181.3
2004 Q4 878 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 623 3 0 4815.4
2004 Q2 659 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 247 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 5 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 374 16 9 42780.7
2002 Q3 699 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 563 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 51 0 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.

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