Mining Incidents

Rio Grande Material West Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Julie A Chaffin
Avondale, Maricopa County, AZ  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0203008

Rio Grande Material West has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K 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 2003
27
citations
8
significant & substantial
$4,176
proposed penalties
$0
paid to date
0% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,176 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
6
inspections on record
67
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: 67 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Rio Grande Material West has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K 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
$0
paid to date
$4K
outstanding
27 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2005-12-28.
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
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 9,396 2 0 212.9
2005 Q3 12,632 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 7,470 7 1 937.1
2005 Q1 6,100 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 7,979 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 5,503 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 8,012 3 0 374.4
Show 5 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2004 Q1 5,798 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 6,650 9 5 1353.4
2003 Q3 9,856 6 2 608.8
2003 Q2 5,104 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 5,808 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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