Mining Incidents

SILVER LAKE: 29 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

JORGE CHACON · Surface
Controlled by Jorge S Chacon
Brackney, Susquehanna County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3610001

SILVER LAKE has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K 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 2016
29
citations
9
significant & substantial
$4,273
proposed penalties
$342
paid to date
8% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,931 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
8
inspections on record
104
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: 104 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

SILVER LAKE has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$342
paid to date
$4K
outstanding
29 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-18.
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.
31.0%
significant & substantial
3.4%
high negligence or reckless
31.0%
reasonably likely or greater
48.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 24.1% low, 72.4% moderate, 3.4% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Damascus 535 Quarry & Stone Products LLC 2012 to 2017
  2. Ronald Opeil Flagstone Co., LLC 2017 to 2020
  3. Stone La Bonita 2020 to 2024
  4. Jorge Chacon 2024 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2024 2
2020 2
2019 1
2018 0
2017 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

SILVER LAKE sits in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 3.2% 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.
Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania · Population 38,349
3.2%
Mining share of county employment
$66,930
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
2024 Q4 290 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 290 4 0 13793.1
2020 Q3 448 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 102 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 635 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 397 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 0 0 0
2019 Q2 208 0 0 0.0
Show 8 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 208 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 0 1 0
2017 Q2 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.