Mining Incidents

Tennessee Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Hondo Minerals Inc · Surface
Controlled by William Miertschin
Chloride, Mohave County, AZ  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0203271

Tennessee Mine has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties and $10K outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2013
Latest incident
Apr 2013
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2012
32
citations
6
significant & substantial
$21,749
proposed penalties
$1,926
paid to date
9% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $19,823 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
5
inspections on record
85
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: 85 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Tennessee Mine has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties and $10K 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.
$22K
proposed penalties
$12K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$10K
outstanding
31 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2013-01-15.
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
2014 Q1 2,468 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 3,478 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 5,656 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 7,583 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 6,710 19 2 2831.6
2012 Q4 14,498 1 0 69.0
2012 Q3 15,597 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 17,567 12 4 683.1
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2013 · 1 incident

April 5, 2013 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hondo Minerals Inc · Fall from machine

Miner was working offsite. He was having his dump truck loaded by a back hoe. He went to get out of his truck and was coming down. He did not maintain his 3 points of contact until safely on the ground. On the last step, he let go to turn and jump down. His left foot got caught and he fell to the ground, breaking his right ankle

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