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Skookum Rock Quarry: 58 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Chugiak, Anchorage County, AK  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 5001856

Skookum Rock Quarry has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
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Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
58
citations
16
significant & substantial
$10,486
proposed penalties
$10,486
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Hamilton Construction, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
19
inspections on record
192
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: 192 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: 2015-09-29.
On record since 2015.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Skookum Rock Quarry has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
55 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $4K in penalties contested before the Commission, $4K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-05-03.
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.
29.1%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
29.1%
reasonably likely or greater
52.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 1.8% low, 98.2% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
9 citations taken to the federal commission · 16% of citations on record
  • Settled 9 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 3 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$4K proposed, $4K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2008-11-21.
Contested penalties
ⓘ A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
WEST 2008-472M Settlement Manning 2010 $4K → $4K
WEST 2009-196M Settlement Manning 2010 $508 → $508
WEST 2008-541M Settlement Manning 2010 $208 → $208
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2014-08-14, 12 years ago
2
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2014-08-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-08-14 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. Hamilton Construction, LLC 2006 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2017 1
2016 4
2015 9
2014 6
2013 6
2012 4
2011 3
2010 4
2009 3
2008 5
2007 5
2006 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Skookum Rock Quarry sits in Anchorage Municipality, Alaska, where the Census mining category is 2.2% 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.
Anchorage Municipality, Alaska · Population 289,069
2.2%
Mining share of county employment
$98,152
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
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 646 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 1,338 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,981 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,644 2 0 756.4
2016 Q1 659 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 320 0 0 0.0
Show 35 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2015 Q3 4,732 11 2 2324.6
2015 Q2 4,565 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 805 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,784 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 5,512 2 1 362.8
2014 Q2 3,165 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 2,018 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,299 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,662 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 874 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,289 2 1 873.7
2012 Q2 0 0 0
2011 Q4 1,044 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,028 1 0 972.8
2011 Q2 634 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 345 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 721 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,562 4 1 2560.8
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 186 5 2 26881.7
2009 Q3 1,519 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 843 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 428 5 1 11682.2
2008 Q3 2,025 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,615 6 3 3715.2
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 1,354 5 2 3692.8
2007 Q3 1,574 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,607 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 99 3 1 30303.0

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.