Thacker Pass has $1K 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
2
Years on record
2024–2025
Latest incident
Jan 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
8
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,145
proposed penalties
$1,145
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
7
inspections on record
67
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: 67 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Thacker Pass has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
8 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-02-06.
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
Person slipped while exiting the fuel truck, hitting their left elbow on the step. Reported the incident, but continued to work. about two weeks later started having issues and pain in the left arm. EE's condition continued to get worse and started to affect EE's right arm as well. On March 18th a doctor directed EE, EE could not return to work.
2024 · 1 incident
September 27, 2024NV · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerOTHER
Miner called the supervisor saying EE did not feel good. 911 was called, and miner was put on an ambulance. The EMT's were fairly sure EE was having a heart attack.
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