Mining Incidents

Rocks Road Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Desert Engineering · Surface
Controlled by Jim Chico
Yerington, Lyon County, NV  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2602591

Rocks Road Pit has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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 2006
54
citations
11
significant & substantial
$6,562
proposed penalties
$6,562
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
42
inspections on record
428
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: 428 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Rocks Road Pit has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
52 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-03.
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
2025 Q4 2,613 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,059 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,970 4 1 1346.8
2025 Q1 1,735 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,057 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 864 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,484 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,251 0 0 0.0
Show 71 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 831 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,256 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,156 1 0 865.1
2023 Q1 842 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,777 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,395 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,838 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,024 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,742 1 0 364.7
2021 Q3 921 2 0 2171.6
2021 Q2 1,382 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,130 1 0 885.0
2020 Q4 1,192 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,283 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,283 1 0 779.4
2020 Q1 1,345 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,403 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,220 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,478 1 1 676.6
2019 Q1 1,220 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,706 1 0 586.2
2018 Q3 711 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,818 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 2,492 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,688 1 0 592.4
2017 Q3 1,861 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,728 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 952 1 0 1050.4
2016 Q4 932 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,782 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 937 2 0 2134.5
2016 Q1 2,068 1 0 483.6
2015 Q4 1,206 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,294 3 0 2318.4
2015 Q2 1,938 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,122 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,052 1 1 950.6
2014 Q3 1,562 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,280 2 1 1562.5
2014 Q1 561 1 0 1782.5
2013 Q4 701 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 748 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 499 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 751 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 577 3 1 5199.3
2012 Q3 613 5 2 8156.6
2012 Q2 726 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 279 4 1 14336.9
2011 Q4 515 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 605 1 0 1652.9
2011 Q2 563 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 792 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 769 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 560 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 651 1 0 1536.1
2010 Q1 678 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 101 4 2 39604.0
2009 Q3 183 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 207 2 1 9661.8
2009 Q1 120 1 0 8333.3
2008 Q4 640 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,608 1 0 621.9
2008 Q2 1,920 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 770 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 770 5 0 6493.5
2007 Q3 770 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 720 2 0 2777.8
2007 Q1 720 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 720 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 720 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 720 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 Rocks Road 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.