Mining Incidents

Road Dept: 31 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Powder River County Road Dept · Surface
Controlled by Powder River County-MT
Broadus, Powder River County, MT  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2402501

Road Dept has $6K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
31
citations
14
significant & substantial
$6,067
proposed penalties
$6,067
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
32
inspections on record
346
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: 346 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Road Dept has $6K 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
31 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-03-20.
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.
45.2%
significant & substantial
6.5%
high negligence or reckless
45.2%
reasonably likely or greater
45.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 6.5% low, 87.1% moderate, 6.5% 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: 2013-03-14, 13 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
1
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2013-03-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 0.69 0.28 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.
Ownership history
  1. Powder River County Road Dept 2008 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 49
2025 3
2024 5
2023 8
2022 7
2021 9
2020 10
2019 9
2018 7
2017 8
2016 5
2015 4
2014 3
2013 2
2012 2
2011 2
2010 2
2009 2
2008 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Road Dept sits in Powder River County, Montana, where the Census mining category is 2.7% 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.
Powder River County, Montana · Population 1,762
2.7%
Mining share of county employment
$68,009
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 8 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 96 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 146 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 8 1 0 125000.0
2024 Q4 43 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 220 0 0 0.0
Show 63 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 208 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 478 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 117 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 345 1 0 2898.6
2023 Q2 305 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 111 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 150 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 421 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 205 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 285 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 188 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 171 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 203 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 255 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 254 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 358 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 739 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 474 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 215 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 305 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 189 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 293 4 1 13651.9
2018 Q3 435 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 385 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 69 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 273 1 1 3663.0
2017 Q3 183 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 271 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 107 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 359 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 246 1 0 4065.0
2016 Q2 275 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 213 2 0 9389.7
2015 Q4 334 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 336 2 1 5952.4
2015 Q2 590 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 267 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 477 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 321 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 297 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 495 4 1 8080.8
2013 Q4 393 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 189 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 267 1 0 3745.3
2013 Q1 178 2 2 11236.0
2012 Q4 544 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 760 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 800 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 296 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 921 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 748 2 2 2673.8
2011 Q2 280 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 489 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,180 10 6 8474.6
2010 Q2 960 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 640 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 720 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 216 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 180 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 128 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.