Mining Incidents

Silver Queen Mine Metal/Non-Metal

The Silver Queen Mine LLC · Underground
Wikieup, Mohave County, AZ  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0203312

Silver Queen Mine has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1 outstanding across 6 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2014
Latest incident
Jan 2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2013
42
citations
8
significant & substantial
$9,833
proposed penalties
$9,085
paid to date
92% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $748 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2013
14
inspections on record
289
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: 289 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 Queen Mine has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1 outstanding across 6 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$1
outstanding
42 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-03-10.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2015 Q4 2,190 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,986 3 0 1510.6
2015 Q2 1,624 6 2 3694.6
2015 Q1 2,030 7 3 3448.3
2014 Q4 1,558 10 1 6418.5
2014 Q3 1,958 4 0 2042.9
2014 Q2 2,125 3 1 1411.8
2014 Q1 2,413 6 1 2486.5
Show 4 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2013 Q4 2,602 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,184 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 2,130 2 0 939.0
2013 Q1 1,964 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2014 · 1 incident

January 27, 2014 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
The Silver Queen Mine LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE was lifting a heavy slushier bucket on an outside muck pile to turn it over. The muck under his feet shifter resulting in the strain - injury

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