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: 276 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Soboba Plant has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
45 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $113 in penalties contested before the Commission, $0 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2006-04-27.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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.
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: 2004-01-21, 22 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
Respirable dust, <.1mg4
Show the individual readings (8)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2004-01-21
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2004-01-21
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2002-07-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.19
0.61
0.31
Washer Operator
2002-07-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.3
0.51
0.59
Front-end Loader Operator
2001-12-27
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.18
1.38
0.13
Utility Man
2001-12-27
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.23
1.21
0.19
Truck Driver
2001-06-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2001-06-19
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.
Soboba Plant recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2005.
Injury rate, 2005
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.21 cases per 100 workers.
In California, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.31 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2005 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2004 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2003 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2002 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2006
6
2005
9
2004
10
2003
10
2002
9
2001
8
2000
7
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Soboba Plant sits in Riverside County, California, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Riverside County, California · Population 2,449,909
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$89,672
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
2006 Q2
1,089
1
0
918.3
2006 Q1
5,097
0
0
0.0
2005 Q4
5,629
2
0
355.3
2005 Q3
5,575
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
6,020
2
0
332.2
2005 Q1
5,592
2
0
357.7
2004 Q4
7,650
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
5,960
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2004 Q2
5,734
4
1
697.6
2004 Q1
6,423
7
2
1089.8
2003 Q4
7,297
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
4,425
6
1
1355.9
2003 Q2
6,124
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
4,752
10
2
2104.4
2002 Q4
4,884
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
7,491
1
0
133.5
2002 Q2
4,812
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
3,257
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
4,836
3
0
620.3
2001 Q2
4,410
3
0
680.3
2001 Q1
4,043
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
4,181
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
4,406
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
4,119
3
0
728.3
2000 Q1
3,927
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
1995 · 1 incident
September 18, 1995CA · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE AND EE WERE CHANGING A CASSETTE DECK ON A PEERLESS SCREEN, MICHAEL WAS STANDIGN ONT HE CATWALK CHANGING CASSETTES WHEN THE CASSETTE SLIPPED AND PINCHED THE TIP OF HIS LEFT THUMB, THE TIPOF EE'S THMB WAS CUT REQUIRING SEVEN STITCHES.