Mining Incidents

Walrath Sand Pit: 27 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

T E Walrath Trucking Inc · Surface
Controlled by Tom E Walrath Sr
Steilacoom, Pierce County, WA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4503437

Walrath Sand Pit has $5K 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 2000
27
citations
13
significant & substantial
$5,372
proposed penalties
$5,372
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
10
inspections on record
164
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: 164 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Walrath Sand Pit has $5K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
27 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-04-08.
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.
48.1%
significant & substantial
18.5%
high negligence or reckless
48.1%
reasonably likely or greater
81.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 81.5% moderate, 18.5% 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: 2003-04-09, 23 years ago
2
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2003-04-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-04-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
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. T E Walrath Trucking Inc 2000 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2003 1
2002 1
2001 1
2000 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Walrath Sand Pit sits in Pierce County, Washington, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Pierce County, Washington · Population 924,106
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$96,632
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
2003 Q4 139 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 614 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 759 2 0 2635.0
2003 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 580 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 560 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 496 2 1 4032.3
2002 Q1 360 0 0 0.0
Show 7 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2001 Q4 535 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 750 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 600 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 628 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 925 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,090 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 495 23 12 46464.6

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.