Mining Incidents

The Ridge Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by C William Nichols
Wickenburg, AZ, Maricopa County, AZ  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0203441

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
Show 12 earlier quarters
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, 2025 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kilaueu Crushers Inc. · Fall from machine

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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