Mining Incidents

Screen Plant #1: 5 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by YELLOWSTONE COUNTY-MT
Billings, Yellowstone County, MT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2402260

Screen Plant #1 has $492 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 2003
5
citations
1
significant & substantial
$492
proposed penalties
$492
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
9
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.

Screen Plant #1 has $492 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.
$492
proposed penalties
$492
current assessed
$492
paid to date
$0
outstanding
5 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $337 in penalties contested before the Commission, $337 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-09-08.
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.
20.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
20.0%
reasonably likely or greater
20.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 40.0% low, 60.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
3 citations taken to the federal commission · 60% of citations on record
  • Settled 3 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$337 proposed, $337 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2004-08-17.
Contested penalties
A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
WEST 2004-458M Settlement Weisberger 2005 $337 → $337
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2010-09-08, 16 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2010-09-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Yellowstone County Road Department 2002 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2010 1
2009 1
2008 2
2007 2
2006 2
2005 1
2004 2
2003 6
2002 6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Screen Plant #1 sits in Yellowstone County, Montana, where the Census mining category is 1.4% 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.
Yellowstone County, Montana · Population 167,340
1.4%
Mining share of county employment
$74,400
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
2010 Q3 45 1 0 22222.2
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q1 12 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 26 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 23 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 6 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 72 0 0 0.0
Show 25 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q1 21 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 80 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 34 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 126 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 53 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 248 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 133 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 163 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 222 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 170 3 1 17647.1
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 441 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 162 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2003 Q1 274 1 0 3649.6
2002 Q4 397 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 0 0 0
2002 Q2 160 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 140 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.