Sea Island Pit & Screening has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2004
Latest incident
Oct 2004
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
24
citations
4
significant & substantial
$4,288
proposed penalties
$4,075
paid to date
95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $213 gap.
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: 301 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Sea Island Pit & Screening has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
24 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $333 in penalties contested before the Commission, $120 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2006-03-23.
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.
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.
2citations taken to the federal commission · 8% of citations on record
Settled
1 · 50%
Stood as issued
1 · 50%
64%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$333 proposed, $120 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 A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record.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 2006-06-16.
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.
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: 2005-07-27, 21 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
1
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2005-07-27
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.78
1.44
0.54
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2006
4
2005
3
2004
3
2003
2
2002
2
2001
2
2000
2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Sea Island Pit & Screening sits in San Juan County, Washington, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
San Juan County, Washington · Population 18,266
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$83,682
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
2006 Q1
1,248
1
0
801.3
2005 Q3
1,854
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
1,180
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
1,110
0
0
0.0
2004 Q4
1,095
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
915
6
1
6557.4
2004 Q2
841
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
665
9
3
13533.8
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2003 Q4
611
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
662
0
0
0.0
2003 Q2
697
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
632
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
747
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
663
4
0
6033.2
2002 Q2
779
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
552
2
0
3623.2
2001 Q4
614
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
613
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
732
2
0
2732.2
2001 Q1
787
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
969
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
789
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
1,013
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
828
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file
2004 · 2 incidents
October 4, 2004WA · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS