Mining Incidents

Twin Creeks: 9 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Twin Creek Quarries LLC · Surface
Controlled by Brian J Caballero
Marion, Flathead County, MT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2402468

Twin Creeks has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $943 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 2007
9
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,043
proposed penalties
$100
paid to date
10% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $943 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2007
11
inspections on record
110
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: 110 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Twin Creeks has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $943 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$100
paid to date
$943
outstanding
9 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-03-17.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
11.1%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
11.1%
reasonably likely or greater
33.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 11.1% low, 88.9% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2009-08-13, 17 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2009-08-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 1.53 0.12 Forklift Operator
2009-08-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Hand Loader
2009-08-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Hand Loader
2009-08-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Hand Loader
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Twin Creek Quarries LLC 2007 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2009 5
2008 5
2007 5
2006 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Twin Creeks sits in Flathead County, Montana, where the Census mining category is 0.7% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Flathead County, Montana · Population 108,445
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$71,327
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
2009 Q3 4,400 2 1 454.5
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 2,373 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,943 2 0 1029.3
2008 Q2 159 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q3 2,832 1 0 353.1
2007 Q2 1,317 0 0 0.0
Show 1 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2006 Q4 1,520 0 0 0.0

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.