Mining Incidents

Starveout Creek Pit: 21 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

S & K Excavation · Surface
Controlled by Kris A Nace
Azalea, Douglas County, OR  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3503572

Starveout Creek Pit has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2004
21
citations
5
significant & substantial
$6,292
proposed penalties
$6,292
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
20
inspections on record
244
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: 244 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Starveout Creek Pit has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
21 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-05-07.
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.
23.8%
significant & substantial
9.5%
high negligence or reckless
23.8%
reasonably likely or greater
52.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 90.5% moderate, 9.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2023-06-28, 3 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2023-06-28 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. S & K Excavation 2003 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 4
2025 4
2024 4
2023 4
2022 4
2021 5
2020 5
2019 5
2018 4
2017 5
2016 5
2015 4
2014 2
2013 2
2012 1
2011 2
2010 2
2004 1
2003 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Starveout Creek Pit sits in Douglas County, Oregon, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Douglas County, Oregon · Population 111,807
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$58,983
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
2026 Q2 205 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 273 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 149 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 357 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 246 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 284 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 45 0 0 0.0
Show 62 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 249 1 0 4016.1
2024 Q1 147 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 207 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 112 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 350 2 1 5714.3
2023 Q1 371 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 405 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 337 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 175 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 515 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 162 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 116 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 173 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 633 2 0 3159.6
2020 Q3 198 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 525 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 355 4 1 11267.6
2019 Q4 114 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 170 1 0 5882.4
2019 Q2 469 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 134 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 235 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 558 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 248 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 353 2 0 5665.7
2017 Q4 340 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 324 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 232 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 221 1 0 4524.9
2016 Q4 247 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 377 3 0 7957.6
2016 Q2 143 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 302 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 370 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 187 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 30 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 525 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 50 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 32 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 27 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 55 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 0 0 0
2013 Q2 64 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 22 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 62 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 0 0 0
2012 Q2 0 0 0
2012 Q1 60 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 61 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 272 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 0 0 0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 306 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 476 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 207 4 3 19323.7
2004 Q2 0 1 0
2004 Q1 24 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 8 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 12 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 20 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.