Mining Incidents

Section 31 Mine: 1 MSHA citation Metal/Non-Metal

Newcastle, King County, WA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4501052

Section 31 Mine has $60 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
1
citations
0
significant & substantial
$60
proposed penalties
$60
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
7
inspections on record
72
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: 72 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Section 31 Mine has $60 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.
$60
proposed penalties
$60
current assessed
$60
paid to date
$0
outstanding
1 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-06-04.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
0.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2009-05-27, 17 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2009-05-27 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 1.04 0.12 Bulldozer Operator
2005-05-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.8 0.21 Bulldozer 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. Mutual Materials Company 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2010 1
2009 1
2008 1
2007 2
2006 1
2005 2
2004 1
2003 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Section 31 Mine sits in King County, Washington, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
King County, Washington · Population 2,262,713
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$122,148
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 19 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 16 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 28 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 26 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 42 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 20 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 20 0 0 0.0
Show 22 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q3 46 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 72 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 32 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 5 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 240 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 245 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 85 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 84 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 110 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 47 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 15 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 10 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 52 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 272 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 20 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 46 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 18 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 12 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 12 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 315 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 485 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.