Mining Incidents

Simkins Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Robert Bolling
pahrump, Nye County, NV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2601988

Simkins Pit has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 1 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 2000
73
citations
11
significant & substantial
$11,116
proposed penalties
$8,851
paid to date
80% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,265 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
32
inspections on record
431
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: 431 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Simkins Pit has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 1 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
69 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-01-06.
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
2009 Q3 160 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 511 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 186 3 1 16129.0
2008 Q4 736 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 0 0 0
2008 Q2 1,086 5 0 4604.1
2008 Q1 1,102 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 900 5 1 5555.6
Show 31 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2007 Q3 1,926 3 0 1557.6
2007 Q2 1,399 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,974 6 0 3039.5
2006 Q4 2,085 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,961 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 2,719 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 2,891 6 1 2075.4
2005 Q4 2,485 14 3 5633.8
2005 Q3 3,033 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 2,566 8 0 3117.7
2005 Q1 1,868 4 0 2141.3
2004 Q4 1,838 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 3,089 5 1 1618.6
2004 Q2 2,139 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,094 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,072 3 0 2798.5
2003 Q3 1,469 1 1 680.7
2003 Q2 1,358 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,620 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 2,577 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 2,168 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,767 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 1,075 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 927 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 993 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 745 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 529 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,048 1 0 954.2
2000 Q3 1,886 5 2 2651.1
2000 Q2 1,455 4 1 2749.1
2000 Q1 1,616 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.

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