Mining Incidents

SB-20: 19 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Saltchuck Resources Inc
richmond, Contra Costa County, CA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0405499

SB-20 has $2K 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
1
Years on record
2003
Latest incident
Mar 2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
19
citations
5
significant & substantial
$1,832
proposed penalties
$1,666
paid to date
91% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $166 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
7
inspections on record
93
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: 93 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

SB-20 has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
19 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-09-21.
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.
26.3%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
26.3%
reasonably likely or greater
84.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 21.1% low, 78.9% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.

SB-20 recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2004.

Injury rate, 2004
This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.73 and the all-US-mining average was 4.33 cases per 100 workers.
In California, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.49 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2004 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2002 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Marine Aggregate Services 2001 to 2002
  2. Foss Maritime Company 2002 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2005 13
2004 13
2003 13
2002 13
2001 12
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

SB-20 sits in Contra Costa County, California, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Contra Costa County, California · Population 1,161,458
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$125,727
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
2005 Q1 2,601 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 5,245 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 5,119 7 1 1367.5
2004 Q2 4,821 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 4,904 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 5,032 1 0 198.7
2003 Q3 4,537 5 2 1102.0
2003 Q2 4,697 0 0 0.0
Show 6 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2003 Q1 5,347 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 4,925 3 1 609.1
2002 Q3 4,967 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 5,172 2 0 386.7
2002 Q1 6,089 1 1 164.2
2001 Q4 5,602 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2003 · 1 incident

March 11, 2003 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Foss Maritime Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE REPLACING A CHUTE GATE PLATE, WELD BROKE RESULTING IN TWO STEEL PLATES COMING TOGETHER IMPACTING EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT PINKY FINGER.