Mining Incidents

Rinker Materials Paulden: 17 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

RINKER MATERIALS · Surface
Controlled by Cemex S A
Phoenix, Yavapai County, AZ  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0202778

Rinker Materials Paulden has $7K 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
1
Years on record
2001
Latest incident
Jan 2001
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
17
citations
6
significant & substantial
$7,467
proposed penalties
$5,467
paid to date
73% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,000 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
13
inspections on record
144
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: 144 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Rinker Materials Paulden has $7K 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
17 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $6K in penalties contested before the Commission, $4K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2006-03-20.
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.
35.3%
significant & substantial
5.9%
high negligence or reckless
35.3%
reasonably likely or greater
64.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.9% low, 88.2% moderate, 5.9% high, 0.0% reckless.
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.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
WEST20020190M Settlement Hodgdon 2002 $6K → $4K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
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: 2005-05-24, 21 years ago
25%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz41 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (7)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2004-09-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.47 0.21 2.24 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-05-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2005-05-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 1.41 0.10 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-05-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 1.04 0.23 Truck Driver
2005-05-24 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.15 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-09-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.29 0.77 0.38 Complete Load-Haul-Dump
2004-09-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
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.

Rinker Materials Paulden recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2000.

Injury rate, 2000
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
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.77 and the all-US-mining average was 5.64 cases per 100 workers.
In Arizona, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.63 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.
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.
Ownership history
  1. Pacific Industrial Pipeline Company 1998 to 2000
  2. Metro Materials Prescott 2000 to 2002
  3. Rinker Materials Western Inc. 2002 to 2004
  4. RINKER MATERIALS 2004 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2006 8
2005 9
2004 11
2003 8
2002 6
2001 7
2000 10
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Rinker Materials Paulden sits in Yavapai County, Arizona, where the Census mining category is 1.2% 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.
Yavapai County, Arizona · Population 241,656
1.2%
Mining share of county employment
$66,106
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
2006 Q1 2,741 1 0 364.8
2005 Q4 4,694 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 5,341 1 0 187.2
2005 Q2 5,894 4 2 678.7
2005 Q1 3,709 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 6,496 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 4,598 2 0 435.0
2004 Q2 5,389 0 0 0.0
Show 17 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2004 Q1 3,240 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 3,701 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 3,631 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 4,745 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 2,342 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 3,340 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 3,494 3 2 858.6
2002 Q2 3,653 2 0 547.5
2002 Q1 3,819 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 3,369 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,364 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 2,682 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 3,154 1 1 317.1
2000 Q4 4,979 3 1 602.5
2000 Q3 7,090 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 4,680 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 4,680 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2001 · 1 incident

January 26, 2001 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Metro Materials Prescott · Fall from machine

EE CLIMBED CRUSHER TO REMOVE DEBRIS FROM AREA. EE LOST HIS BALANCE FALLING APPROX 15 FT