Mining Incidents

Severance: 61 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Severance Sand & Gravel Inc. · Surface
Garden Valley, Boise County, ID  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1002241

Severance has $14K 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 2014
61
citations
21
significant & substantial
$13,917
proposed penalties
$13,917
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
25
inspections on record
277
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: 277 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2020-04-29.
On record since 2020.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Severance has $14K 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.
$14K
proposed penalties
$14K
current assessed
$14K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
60 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-12.
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.
35.0%
significant & substantial
28.3%
high negligence or reckless
35.0%
reasonably likely or greater
66.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 3.3% low, 68.3% moderate, 28.3% 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: 2015-07-15, 11 years ago
2
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
  • Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2015-07-15 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2015-07-15 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. Severance Sand & Gravel Inc. 2013 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 4
2024 4
2023 4
2022 3
2021 2
2020 4
2019 2
2018 2
2017 3
2016 3
2015 3
2014 2
2013 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Severance sits in Boise County, Idaho, 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.
Boise County, Idaho · Population 8,045
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$77,349
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
2026 Q2 1,544 15 7 9715.0
2026 Q1 222 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 622 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 891 7 4 7856.3
2025 Q2 1,605 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 395 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 781 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,443 6 0 4158.0
Show 44 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 512 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 258 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 754 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,185 6 3 5063.3
2023 Q2 538 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 116 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 720 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 912 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 780 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q3 1,155 1 0 865.8
2021 Q2 960 5 2 5208.3
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 482 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,245 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 350 2 1 5714.3
2020 Q1 28 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 456 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 730 3 1 4109.6
2019 Q2 724 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 300 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 951 2 0 2103.0
2018 Q2 386 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 161 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 271 2 1 7380.1
2017 Q2 398 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 222 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 388 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 477 3 0 6289.3
2016 Q1 237 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 82 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 269 3 1 11152.4
2015 Q2 275 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 95 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 122 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 102 6 1 58823.5
2014 Q2 0 0 0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 0 0 0
2013 Q3 105 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.