RICHARDS PIT Metal/Non-Metal
John Richards Const
· Surface
Controlled by
John Richards
Seeley Lake,
Missoula County,
MT
·
Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2402070
RICHARDS PIT has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 10 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 0
- Years on record
- —
- Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
40
citations
5
significant & substantial
$4,652
proposed penalties
$2,258
paid to date
49% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,394 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
25
inspections on record
343
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: 343 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
RICHARDS PIT has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 10 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.$5K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
37 assessments are final orders; 10 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-07-29.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
See also
the operator's enforcement record
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Q4 | 121 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2022 Q4 | 201 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q3 | 97 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q2 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2021 Q4 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q3 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q4 | 436 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q3 | 221 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q3 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q2 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2018 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2018 Q3 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2017 Q4 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q3 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q2 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q4 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q3 | 201 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q2 | 252 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q4 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q3 | 161 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q2 | 101 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q1 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q4 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q3 | 181 | 2 | 0 | 11049.7 |
| 2014 Q2 | 177 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q4 | 354 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q3 | 483 | 3 | 0 | 6211.2 |
| 2013 Q2 | 162 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q4 | 283 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q3 | 920 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q2 | 201 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2011 Q4 | 161 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2011 Q3 | 81 | 1 | 0 | 12345.7 |
| 2011 Q1 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2010 Q4 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2010 Q3 | 538 | 1 | 0 | 1858.7 |
| 2010 Q2 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2010 Q1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2009 Q4 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2009 Q3 | 358 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2009 Q2 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2009 Q1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2008 Q4 | 552 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2008 Q3 | 210 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2008 Q2 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2008 Q1 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2007 Q4 | 82 | 1 | 0 | 12195.1 |
| 2007 Q3 | 130 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2007 Q2 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2007 Q1 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2006 Q4 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2006 Q3 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2006 Q2 | 200 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2006 Q1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2005 Q4 | 170 | 4 | 0 | 23529.4 |
| 2005 Q3 | 104 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2005 Q2 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2005 Q1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2004 Q4 | 168 | 14 | 3 | 83333.3 |
| 2004 Q3 | 220 | 5 | 2 | 22727.3 |
| 2004 Q2 | 108 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2004 Q1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2003 Q4 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2003 Q3 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2003 Q2 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2003 Q1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2002 Q4 | 190 | 1 | 0 | 5263.2 |
| 2002 Q3 | 110 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2002 Q2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2002 Q1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2001 Q4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2001 Q3 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2001 Q2 | 220 | 7 | 0 | 31818.2 |
| 2001 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2000 Q4 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2000 Q3 | 104 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2000 Q2 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2000 Q1 | 41 | 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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The full compliance file on RICHARDS PIT
A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.