Mining Incidents

Virginia Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Vernon E Stratton
Custer, Custer County, SD  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3901501

Virginia Mine has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $7K outstanding across 3 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 2005
21
citations
9
significant & substantial
$11,356
proposed penalties
$4,606
paid to date
41% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $6,750 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
7
inspections on record
85
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: 85 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Virginia Mine has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $7K outstanding across 3 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$7K
outstanding
19 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-12-13.
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
2006 Q2 80 1 1 12500.0
2006 Q1 300 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 316 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.

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