The Ridge has $46K in proposed MSHA penalties and $39K outstanding across 6 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2025
Latest incident
Jan 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
48
citations
9
significant & substantial
$46,206
proposed penalties
$7,630
paid to date
17% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $38,576 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2021
15
inspections on record
228
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: 228 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
The Ridge has $46K in proposed MSHA penalties and $39K outstanding across 6 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.
$46K
proposed penalties
$46K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$39K
outstanding
44 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-20.
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
2025 Q4
17,995
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
15,849
4
1
252.4
2025 Q2
15,460
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
16,543
8
0
483.6
2024 Q4
19,627
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
19,657
0
0
0.0
2024 Q2
16,523
9
1
544.7
2024 Q1
14,689
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4
14,997
9
1
600.1
2023 Q3
13,256
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
13,953
1
0
71.7
2023 Q1
12,321
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
10,946
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
11,142
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
12,231
7
3
572.3
2022 Q1
8,091
0
0
0.0
2021 Q4
6,502
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
5,010
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
2,954
1
0
338.5
2021 Q1
1,677
7
1
4174.1
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2025 · 1 incident
January 21, 2025AZ · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
As EE was climbing down the water pull EE missed the step and fell to the ground. When EE hit the ground there was a loud pop and EE's right hip started to hurt.
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