Mining Incidents

Sanders County Dist 1, 2 & 3 Metal/Non-Metal

Sanders County · Surface
Controlled by Sanders County - MT
Plains, Sanders County, MT  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2402526

Sanders County Dist 1, 2 & 3 has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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 2008
15
citations
6
significant & substantial
$2,870
proposed penalties
$2,870
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
11
inspections on record
120
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: 120 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Sanders County Dist 1, 2 & 3 has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
14 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-03-20.
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 Q1 7 6 2 857142.9
2024 Q4 17 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
2024 Q2 32 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 17 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 2 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2 0 0 0.0
Show 57 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 176 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 56 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 4 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 16 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 16 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 176 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 80 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 50 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 4 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 8 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 41 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 0 0 0
2015 Q3 301 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 0 0 0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 0 0 0
2014 Q3 0 0 0
2014 Q2 0 0 0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 25 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 77 1 1 12987.0
2013 Q2 27 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 32 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 165 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 435 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 247 1 0 4048.6
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 4 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 145 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 240 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 70 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 206 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 90 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 138 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 63 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 67 7 3 104477.6

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 Sanders County Dist 1, 2 & 3

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.