Mining Incidents

Tumwater Metal/Non-Metal

Tumwater, Thurston County, WA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4503752

Tumwater has $589 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2016
5
citations
0
significant & substantial
$589
proposed penalties
$589
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
5
inspections on record
55
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: 55 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Tumwater has $589 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.
$589
proposed penalties
$589
current assessed
$589
paid to date
$0
outstanding
5 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2018-12-12.
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
2022 Q2 1,101 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 892 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,040 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 3,959 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 4,113 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 3,378 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 3,444 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 4,179 1 0 239.3
Show 3 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2018 Q3 4,371 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 4,957 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 4,458 3 0 672.9

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.

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