Mining Incidents

Rocky Mountain Plants Metal/Non-Metal

Klamath Falls, Klamath County, OR  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3503696

Rocky Mountain Plants has $189K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2024
Latest incident
Jun 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
149
citations
47
significant & substantial
$189,264
proposed penalties
$159,454
paid to date
84% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $29,810 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
40
inspections on record
692
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: 692 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Rocky Mountain Plants has $189K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 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.
$189K
proposed penalties
$159K
current assessed
$159K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
148 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-25.
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 3,120 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 4,095 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 4,287 4 1 933.1
2025 Q1 1,494 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,115 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,424 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,190 5 2 1567.4
2024 Q1 2,643 0 0 0.0
Show 63 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,635 3 0 1138.5
2023 Q3 2,631 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,817 3 0 1065.0
2023 Q1 3,301 1 0 302.9
2022 Q4 3,538 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 6,388 2 0 313.1
2022 Q2 5,869 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 4,223 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 5,892 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 4,074 3 0 736.4
2021 Q2 5,117 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 5,585 4 0 716.2
2020 Q4 6,750 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 5,870 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 5,867 15 5 2556.7
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 3,643 11 2 3019.5
2019 Q3 5,809 2 2 344.3
2019 Q2 5,835 7 1 1199.7
2019 Q1 2,987 7 3 2343.5
2018 Q4 2,979 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 6,191 15 5 2422.9
2018 Q2 4,319 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 3,685 5 2 1356.9
2017 Q4 3,921 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 5,298 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 5,293 1 0 188.9
2017 Q1 1,996 4 1 2004.0
2016 Q4 3,321 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 4,167 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 4,337 2 0 461.1
2016 Q1 2,468 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 2,991 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 3,280 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 4,442 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,126 7 2 6216.7
2014 Q4 3,445 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 3,967 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 4,283 5 0 1167.4
2014 Q1 977 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 2,167 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 3,285 2 0 608.8
2013 Q2 3,268 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 588 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,076 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 5,082 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 4,892 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 2,066 8 6 3872.2
2011 Q4 3,568 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 4,609 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 3,812 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 2,505 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 2,695 9 6 3339.5
2010 Q3 1,548 13 8 8397.9
2010 Q2 2,167 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 546 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 939 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 815 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 538 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 926 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 489 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 764 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 370 8 1 21621.6
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2024 · 1 incident

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