SWEETWATER GARNET INC.: 8 MSHA citations
Metal/Non-Metal
SWEETWATER GARNET INC. has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 1
- Years on record
- 1997
- Latest incident
- Mar 1997
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
2
significant & substantial
$1,630
proposed penalties
10% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,465 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 46 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
SWEETWATER GARNET INC. has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
8 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2002-08-28.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
25.0%
significant & substantial
37.5%
high negligence or reckless
25.0%
reasonably likely or greater
12.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 62.5% moderate, 37.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
| Year |
Employees |
| 2002 |
0 |
| 2001 |
7 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
SWEETWATER GARNET INC. sits in Beaverhead County, Montana, where the Census mining category is 2.7% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.
Beaverhead County, Montana · Population 9,590
2.7%
Mining share of county employment
$58,072
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
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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 |
| 2002 Q4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2002 Q2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2002 Q1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2001 Q4 |
3,646 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2001 Q3 |
746 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2001 Q2 |
4,829 |
2 |
0 |
414.2 |
| 2001 Q1 |
3,015 |
5 |
2 |
1658.4 |
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
1997 · 1 incident
Sweetwater Garnet Inc · Struck by falling object
EE WAS PREPARING TO LOAD EQUIPMENT WITH A FORKLIFT THE EQUIPMENT WAS 10" OFF THE GROUND AND SLIPPED OFF THE FORKS. WHEN THE FRONT HIT THE GROUND THE BOLTS HOLDING A LAUNDER SHEERED OFF. LAUNDE R FELL ON EE S ANKLE.