Mining Incidents

Spears Pit Metal/Non-Metal

BlueBird Stone · Surface
Controlled by Tommy Caldwell
Stigler, Haskell County, OK  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3402145

Spears Pit has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $264 outstanding across 0 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 2015
20
citations
4
significant & substantial
$2,992
proposed penalties
$2,728
paid to date
91% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $264 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
14
inspections on record
137
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: 137 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Spears Pit has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $264 outstanding across 0 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
$264
outstanding
20 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-02-18.
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
2025 Q4 3 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 10 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
Show 37 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 3 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 3 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 10 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 10 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 20 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 10 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 10 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 10 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 784 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,054 2 2 1897.5
2019 Q4 1,360 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,038 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,220 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 2,614 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 2,633 1 0 379.8
2018 Q3 1,706 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,528 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,842 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 2,413 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 6,275 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 4,052 2 1 493.6
2017 Q1 3,038 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,224 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 3,752 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,174 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 5,340 5 0 936.3
2015 Q4 3,300 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 804 10 1 12437.8
2015 Q2 5,928 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 6,480 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 4,928 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 680 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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