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Trico Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Gopher Construction · Surface

Controlled by Don W Tibbals

FERNLEY, Storey County, NV  ·  Active

MSHA Mine ID: 2602518

Trico Pit has $301K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 23 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

Feb 2025

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2004

166

citations

56

significant & substantial

$300,974

proposed penalties

$123,284

paid to date

41% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $177,690 gap.

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Inspection activity

MSHA inspections since 2003

50

inspections on record

712

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: 712 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.

Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Trico Pit has $301K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 23 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition

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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.

$301K

proposed penalties

$123K

current assessed

$123K

paid to date

$0

outstanding

161 assessments are final orders; 23 contested dockets.

As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-13.

Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

Quarterly safety rates

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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	8,755	0	0	0.0
2025 Q3	9,798	0	0	0.0
2025 Q2	9,993	1	0	100.1
2025 Q1	8,464	0	0	0.0
2024 Q4	9,126	2	1	219.2
2024 Q3	7,374	0	0	0.0
2024 Q2	5,093	0	0	0.0
2024 Q1	5,639	0	0	0.0

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Quarter	Hours worked	Citations	S&S	Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4	9,531	0	0	0.0
2023 Q3	7,736	0	0	0.0
2023 Q2	7,081	3	1	423.7
2023 Q1	4,691	0	0	0.0
2022 Q4	5,187	18	2	3470.2
2022 Q3	4,936	0	0	0.0
2022 Q2	5,177	0	0	0.0
2022 Q1	4,832	5	2	1034.8
2021 Q4	4,697	0	0	0.0
2021 Q3	3,627	6	1	1654.3
2021 Q2	3,081	0	0	0.0
2021 Q1	3,229	0	0	0.0
2020 Q4	4,720	0	0	0.0
2020 Q3	5,574	3	1	538.2
2020 Q2	4,157	0	0	0.0
2020 Q1	4,481	2	1	446.3
2019 Q4	5,216	0	0	0.0
2019 Q3	6,521	0	0	0.0
2019 Q2	6,919	3	1	433.6
2019 Q1	3,225	3	0	930.2
2018 Q4	3,749	0	0	0.0
2018 Q3	4,212	1	0	237.4
2018 Q2	4,882	0	0	0.0
2018 Q1	2,857	0	0	0.0
2017 Q4	3,820	0	0	0.0
2017 Q3	5,594	11	4	1966.4
2017 Q2	5,320	0	0	0.0
2017 Q1	7,143	7	1	980.0
2016 Q4	8,436	0	0	0.0
2016 Q3	5,522	0	0	0.0
2016 Q2	4,790	0	0	0.0
2016 Q1	2,444	4	1	1636.7
2015 Q4	2,841	0	0	0.0
2015 Q3	3,870	0	0	0.0
2015 Q2	4,104	6	1	1462.0
2015 Q1	5,504	0	0	0.0
2014 Q4	5,942	6	2	1009.8
2014 Q3	5,080	0	0	0.0
2014 Q2	5,128	0	0	0.0
2014 Q1	4,101	14	4	3413.8
2013 Q4	5,605	0	0	0.0
2013 Q3	3,461	3	1	866.8
2013 Q2	2,783	0	0	0.0
2013 Q1	696	0	0	0.0
2012 Q4	1,596	0	0	0.0
2012 Q3	1,923	0	0	0.0
2012 Q2	660	0	0	0.0
2012 Q1	42	0	0	0.0
2011 Q4	364	0	0	0.0
2011 Q3	1,126	0	0	0.0
2011 Q2	816	0	0	0.0
2011 Q1	957	0	0	0.0
2010 Q4	2,110	0	0	0.0
2010 Q3	1,535	3	1	1954.4
2010 Q2	1,058	0	0	0.0
2010 Q1	299	1	0	3344.5
2009 Q4	653	0	0	0.0
2008 Q3	1,992	0	0	0.0
2008 Q2	2,328	10	6	4295.5
2008 Q1	2,498	0	0	0.0
2007 Q4	2,760	0	0	0.0
2007 Q3	3,728	0	0	0.0
2007 Q2	2,880	27	18	9375.0
2007 Q1	3,766	0	0	0.0
2006 Q4	2,108	0	0	0.0
2006 Q3	3,120	0	0	0.0
2006 Q2	2,086	12	4	5752.6
2006 Q1	2,408	0	0	0.0
2005 Q4	2,265	0	0	0.0
2005 Q3	3,540	0	0	0.0
2005 Q2	2,804	0	0	0.0
2005 Q1	1,035	0	0	0.0
2004 Q4	3,305	11	2	3328.3
2004 Q3	3,832	0	0	0.0
2004 Q2	2,485	0	0	0.0
2004 Q1	364	0	0	0.0
2003 Q4	549	0	0	0.0
2003 Q3	982	0	0	0.0
2003 Q2	480	0	0	0.0

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2025 · 1 incident

February 11, 2025 NV · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor POWERED HAULAGE

Gopher Construction · Struck by falling object

A return Roller fell off a Radial stacker as is was being moved over. Employee was moving it at the controls and looked up and it hit them in the face.

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