Mining Incidents

Thornton Metal/Non-Metal

Rexburg, Madison County, ID  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1002184

Thornton has $4K 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
2
Years on record
2015
Latest incident
Jun 2015
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
26
citations
5
significant & substantial
$4,001
proposed penalties
$2,963
paid to date
74% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,038 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2010
27
inspections on record
336
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: 336 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Thornton has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
22 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-19.
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 193 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 506 4 0 7905.1
2025 Q2 729 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 981 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 257 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 729 4 1 5487.0
2024 Q2 575 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 483 0 0 0.0
Show 59 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 630 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 805 2 0 2484.5
2023 Q2 1,226 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,155 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 213 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 398 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 357 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 282 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 317 1 0 3154.6
2021 Q2 348 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 66 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 472 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 349 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 334 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 55 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 245 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 127 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 334 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 214 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 108 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 481 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 47 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 147 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 121 1 0 8264.5
2017 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 151 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 230 6 2 26087.0
2016 Q2 395 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 372 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,211 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 466 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 621 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 446 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 157 1 1 6369.4
2014 Q2 549 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 467 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 263 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 0 0 0
2013 Q2 1,031 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 194 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 376 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 924 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 195 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 855 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,265 1 0 790.5
2011 Q2 1,068 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 79 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 824 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,209 2 1 1654.3
2010 Q2 1,162 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 971 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,402 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 625 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2015 · 2 incidents

June 18, 2015 ID · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Walters Ready Mix, Inc. · Fall from ladders

Employee was on a ladder taking measurements and as he began to descend the ladder fell over causing him to fall to ground.

April 20, 2015 ID · Metal/Non-Metal crusher attendant/operator, pan feeder operator/worker MACHINERY
Walters Ready Mix, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was spraying/cleaning in the area around the hopper. He was within a 'safe' zone. Not under the hopper. Cobble rock was being loaded into the Hopper. The hopper plugged up and rock came out of the top hitting his arm.

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A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.