Mining Incidents

Smith Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Coos River Rock · Surface
Coos Bay, Coos County, OR  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3503488

Smith Pit has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K 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
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
78
citations
15
significant & substantial
$7,845
proposed penalties
$6,581
paid to date
84% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,264 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
38
inspections on record
490
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: 490 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Smith Pit has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
76 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-11-14.
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
2014 Q3 114 1 0 8771.9
2014 Q2 220 1 0 4545.5
2014 Q1 1,065 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 821 6 2 7308.2
2013 Q3 140 2 0 14285.7
2013 Q2 460 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 300 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 943 4 1 4241.8
Show 44 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2012 Q2 776 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 905 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 824 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 742 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 805 2 0 2484.5
2011 Q1 264 4 2 15151.5
2010 Q4 1,045 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 2,185 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 740 1 0 1351.4
2010 Q1 1,160 4 3 3448.3
2009 Q4 1,000 1 0 1000.0
2009 Q3 840 1 0 1190.5
2009 Q2 750 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 687 1 0 1455.6
2008 Q4 750 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 331 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 230 3 0 13043.5
2007 Q4 432 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 535 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 540 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 380 23 5 60526.3
2005 Q4 1,043 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 420 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 340 1 0 2941.2
2005 Q1 1,110 7 2 6306.3
2004 Q4 970 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 880 1 0 1136.4
2004 Q2 240 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 635 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 991 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 976 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 926 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,466 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 2,878 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,317 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 1,158 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,493 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,484 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,526 1 0 655.3
2001 Q1 1,721 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,046 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,768 2 0 722.5
2000 Q2 1,679 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,685 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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The full compliance file on Smith Pit

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.