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RiverBend Materials RiverBend West: 85 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

River Bend Mtls · Surface
Controlled by CRH PLC
Salem, Marion County, OR  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3503596

RiverBend Materials RiverBend West has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2007–2025
Latest incident
Sep 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
85
citations
15
significant & substantial
$13,778
proposed penalties
$13,778
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See River Bend Mtls's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
52
inspections on record
783
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: 783 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

RiverBend Materials RiverBend West has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$14K
proposed penalties
$14K
current assessed
$14K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
85 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-09-05.
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.
17.6%
significant & substantial
2.4%
high negligence or reckless
17.6%
reasonably likely or greater
54.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 28.2% low, 69.4% moderate, 2.4% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2025-02-11
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
15
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg8
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
  • Cristobalite, respirable1
Show the individual readings (15)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-02-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-12-06 Cristobalite, respirable 0.25 Laborer, Bullgang
2018-12-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 Laborer, Bullgang
2018-12-06 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.33 Laborer, Bullgang
2018-12-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.27 Laborer, Bullgang
2014-10-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2014-10-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-02-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-02-11 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Crusher Oper/Worker
2010-02-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Electrician
2005-12-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.3 1.89 0.16 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-12-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-11-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.31 1.83 0.17 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-11-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-11-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
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.

RiverBend Materials RiverBend West recorded 9.36 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ 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.
9.36
total case rate
9.36
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Oregon, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.35 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
2025 * 9.36 9.36 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 0.00 0.00 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.
Ownership history
  1. Salem Black Top & Asphalt Paving 2004 to 2008
  2. Cemex 2008 to 2013
  3. River Bend Mtls 2013 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 11
2025 18
2024 20
2023 22
2022 23
2021 21
2020 20
2019 22
2018 23
2017 21
2016 21
2015 16
2014 11
2013 13
2012 11
2011 12
2010 12
2009 10
2008 14
2007 15
2006 15
2005 14
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

RiverBend Materials RiverBend West sits in Marion County, Oregon, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Marion County, Oregon · Population 346,532
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$74,624
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
2026 Q2 3,506 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 2,027 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 3,028 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 7,032 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 8,526 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,791 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 7,811 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 9,068 1 0 110.3
Show 77 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 10,753 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 8,179 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 8,979 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 11,053 1 0 90.5
2023 Q2 10,645 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 8,812 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 10,751 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 14,517 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 11,706 5 0 427.1
2022 Q1 8,149 2 0 245.4
2021 Q4 10,222 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 12,342 3 0 243.1
2021 Q2 13,459 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 8,683 3 1 345.5
2020 Q4 10,924 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 11,468 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 10,043 1 0 99.6
2020 Q1 7,862 3 0 381.6
2019 Q4 10,399 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 11,506 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 10,722 1 0 93.3
2019 Q1 8,711 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 8,147 1 0 122.7
2018 Q3 11,746 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 12,119 1 0 82.5
2018 Q1 10,212 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 10,419 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 12,413 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 11,987 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 8,156 1 0 122.6
2016 Q4 10,059 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 11,680 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 11,923 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 9,472 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 9,373 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 9,952 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 8,382 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 5,190 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 5,100 1 0 196.1
2014 Q3 7,832 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 7,357 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 3,116 1 0 320.9
2013 Q4 5,597 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 9,222 1 0 108.4
2013 Q2 7,093 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 3,069 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 4,980 1 0 200.8
2012 Q3 6,302 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 5,213 2 0 383.7
2012 Q1 3,018 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 4,676 2 1 427.7
2011 Q3 6,548 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 5,351 2 0 373.8
2011 Q1 4,543 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 5,259 3 1 570.5
2010 Q3 7,752 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 4,237 9 4 2124.1
2010 Q1 4,877 5 0 1025.2
2009 Q4 3,972 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 5,786 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 4,699 2 0 425.6
2009 Q1 2,439 4 1 1640.0
2008 Q4 2,919 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 5,002 2 0 399.8
2008 Q2 3,714 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 2,815 1 0 355.2
2007 Q4 4,461 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 5,761 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 6,622 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 3,109 8 1 2573.2
2006 Q4 5,905 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 9,741 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 7,920 8 3 1010.1
2006 Q1 4,277 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 8,021 4 0 498.7
2005 Q3 5,864 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 3,238 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2025 · 1 incident

September 10, 2025 OR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
River Bend Mtls · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Lifting a Poly Deck.

2017 · 1 incident

September 18, 2017 OR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
River Bend Mtls · Struck by falling object

Mechanic was working on a loader when an accumulator fell and smashed left middle finger resulting in fracture and 12 stitches. Received antibiotic, full duty release.

2016 · 1 incident

April 28, 2016 OR · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
River Bend Mtls · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

MSHA Recordable Standard Threshold Shift

2014 · 1 incident

May 6, 2014 OR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
River Bend Mtls · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was going to check and/or change some screen panels and got stuck under the shaft tube and had to force his way out and injured his rib in doing so.

2011 · 1 incident

September 6, 2011 OR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cemex · Fall onto or against objects

EE WAS LOADING EQUIPMENT PARTS ON A FLATBED TRAILER WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE EDGE OF THE TRAILER DECK CAUSING HIM TO FALL AND BRUISE HIS RIBS.

2007 · 1 incident

May 16, 2007 OR · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Salem Black Top & Asphalt Paving · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

While replacing hydraulic pump at drive over, when tapping on wrench to loosen fitting, finger was pinched between pump and concrete block, resulting in laceration to left ring finger.