Mining Incidents

Sacremento Mine: 31 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Dick Merritt Construction · Surface
Controlled by Richard (Dick) Merritt
Bullhead city, Mohave County, AZ  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0202718

Sacremento Mine has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $5K 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 2000
31
citations
9
significant & substantial
$5,853
proposed penalties
$875
paid to date
15% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,978 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
21
inspections on record
150
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: 150 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Sacremento Mine has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $5K 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
$875
paid to date
$5K
outstanding
31 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-07-11.
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.
29.0%
significant & substantial
3.2%
high negligence or reckless
29.0%
reasonably likely or greater
54.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 6.5% low, 90.3% moderate, 3.2% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Dick Merritt Construction 1997 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2007 1
2006 2
2005 2
2004 2
2003 2
2002 3
2001 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Sacremento Mine sits in Mohave County, Arizona, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
Mohave County, Arizona · Population 217,420
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$55,799
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
2007 Q3 0 1 0
2007 Q2 90 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 235 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 255 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 195 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 145 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 150 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 155 0 0 0.0
Show 18 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2005 Q3 125 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 155 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 130 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 95 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 95 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 145 5 1 34482.8
2004 Q1 95 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 45 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 46 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 60 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 1 0
2002 Q4 75 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 100 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 150 14 4 93333.3
2002 Q1 127 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 81 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 97 1 0 10309.3
2001 Q1 90 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.