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: 586 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Sunshine Rock has $26K 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.
$26K
proposed penalties
$26K
current assessed
$26K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
110 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-09-01.
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.
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: 2005-01-12, 21 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
15
samples
7
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg8
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz5
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (15)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2005-01-12
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.88
10
0.09
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2005-01-12
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
1.1
10
0.11
Truck Driver
2005-01-12
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.17
10
0.02
Dragline Operator
2005-01-12
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
2.68
10
0.27
Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-01-12
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.48
10
0.05
Front-end Loader Operator
2003-03-05
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.12
10
0.01
Backhoe Operator
2003-03-05
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2003-03-05
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1.3
3.01
0.43
Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-03-05
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Washer Operator
2003-03-05
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dragline Operator
2001-03-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Washer Operator
2001-03-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2001-03-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Oiler, Greaser
2001-03-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2001-03-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
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.
Sunshine Rock recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2009.
Injury rate, 2009
ⓘ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 2.82 and the all-US-mining average was 3.36 cases per 100 workers.
In Florida, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.14 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
2009 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2008 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2007 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2006 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2005 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2004 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2003 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2000 *
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
2011
5
2010
11
2009
13
2008
21
2007
31
2006
35
2005
38
2004
38
2003
38
2002
37
2001
42
2000
40
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Sunshine Rock sits in Miami-Dade County, Florida, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Miami-Dade County, Florida · Population 2,685,296
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$68,694
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
2011 Q2
0
0
0
2011 Q1
1,668
0
0
0.0
2010 Q3
4,757
0
0
0.0
2010 Q2
5,632
1
0
177.6
2010 Q1
6,487
2
2
308.3
2009 Q4
4,592
0
0
0.0
2009 Q3
5,901
1
1
169.5
2009 Q2
7,025
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2009 Q1
8,284
0
0
0.0
2008 Q4
8,203
0
0
0.0
2008 Q3
10,410
0
0
0.0
2008 Q2
10,906
2
0
183.4
2008 Q1
14,614
0
0
0.0
2007 Q4
16,882
5
0
296.2
2007 Q3
19,219
1
1
52.0
2007 Q2
19,516
8
6
409.9
2007 Q1
20,487
0
0
0.0
2006 Q4
15,007
0
0
0.0
2006 Q3
17,046
0
0
0.0
2006 Q2
19,151
3
1
156.6
2006 Q1
19,243
8
3
415.7
2005 Q4
17,712
0
0
0.0
2005 Q3
18,367
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
18,225
4
2
219.5
2005 Q1
19,364
3
1
154.9
2004 Q4
17,726
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
18,617
0
0
0.0
2004 Q2
19,780
7
2
353.9
2004 Q1
20,722
8
3
386.1
2003 Q4
19,396
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
19,885
14
3
704.0
2003 Q2
22,583
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
18,819
3
0
159.4
2002 Q4
21,463
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
22,828
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
19,358
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
28,443
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
31,587
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
22,640
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
22,990
5
2
217.5
2000 Q2
24,315
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
25,206
10
4
396.7
Fatalities at this mine
2 recorded
April 26, 1997FL · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techFatality · MACHINERY