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WASH PLANT #5: 10 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Mesa, Maricopa County, AZ  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0202509

WASH PLANT #5 has $726 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
16
Years on record
1997–2003
Latest incident
Feb 2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
10
citations
4
significant & substantial
$726
proposed penalties
$726
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Salt River Materials Group's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
9
inspections on record
58
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: 58 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

WASH PLANT #5 has $726 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.
$726
proposed penalties
$726
current assessed
$726
paid to date
$0
outstanding
10 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-01-13.
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.
40.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
40.0%
reasonably likely or greater
20.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.

WASH PLANT #5 recorded 8.43 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2002.

Injury rate, 2002
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
8.43
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.17 and the all-US-mining average was 5.05 cases per 100 workers.
In Arizona, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.22 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2002 * 8.43 0.00 0.000
2001 * 14.90 14.90 0.000
2000 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Salt River Materials Group 1990 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2004 5
2003 7
2002 13
2001 15
2000 16
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

WASH PLANT #5 sits in Maricopa County, Arizona, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Maricopa County, Arizona · Population 4,491,987
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$85,518
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
2004 Q3 0 0 0
2004 Q2 2,726 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 2,835 3 0 1058.2
2003 Q4 2,584 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 2,676 1 0 373.7
2003 Q2 2,955 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 3,298 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 5,780 2 1 346.0
Show 11 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2002 Q3 4,842 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 7,357 1 1 135.9
2002 Q1 5,747 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 4,377 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 5,892 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 8,904 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 7,668 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 7,027 1 0 142.3
2000 Q3 10,208 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 7,960 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 6,376 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

16 on file

2003 · 1 incident

February 17, 2003 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Salt River Materials Group · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

AS HE STARTED TO PULL A PUMP TO THE END OF THE TAIL GATE OF A PICK UP TRUCK HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS LOWER BACK.

2002 · 1 incident

January 5, 2002 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Salt River Materials Group · Struck against stationary object

AS HE WAS CHANGING THE CUTTING EDGES ON THE EQUIPMENT HE WAS HOLDING A BOLT AND AS IT SPUN AROUND IT CUT HIS FINGER.

2001 · 2 incidents

June 22, 2001 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Salt River Materials Group · Fall onto or against objects

WHILE ASSISTING CHANGING SCREENS AT THE WASH PLANT HE WAS WALKING SIDEWAYS AND TRIPPED ON DEBRIS WHICH CAUSED HIM TO TWIST HIS ANKLE.

April 19, 2001 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Salt River Materials Group · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE LEAVING THE PARKING AREA WHICH WAS VERY DARK HE JUMPED OVER A BERM AND THEN STEPPED INTO A HOLE CAUSING HIM TO FALL.

1999 · 7 incidents

December 6, 1999 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Salt River Materials Group · Struck against a moving object

THE LOADER HE WAS OPERATING CAME OFF THE GROUND AS HE RAN UP THE RAMP TO THE FEEDER, AND AS IT CAME DOWN IT JARRED HIS NECK AND BACK.

October 25, 1999 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Salt River Materials Group · Fall down stairs

EE WAS CLIMBING OFF THE TRACKHOE MISSED THE STEP& HIT THE GROUND WITH HIS RIGHT LEG STRAINING HIS LOWER BACK

September 29, 1999 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Salt River Materials Group · Over-exertion in lifting objects

KNELT OR SQUATED DOWN TO SET A BOLT AND WASHER DOWN ON A BOARD. WHEN HE STOOD UP HIS KNEE POPPED AND INSTANTLY SWELLED.

July 15, 1999 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Salt River Materials Group · Struck against stationary object

WHILE INSTALLING A LIGT FIXTURE AT THE SCALE HOUSE, INDIVIDUAL'S HAND SLIPPED AND HIT THE CORNEROF THE FIXTURE, CAUSING A LACERATION OF THE LEFTHAND. STITCHES WERE REQUIRED.

June 6, 1999 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Salt River Materials Group · Struck by falling object

WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF CHANGING THE BUCKET THE EE PLACED A WOOD BLOCK UNDERNEATH THE DOG BONE HIS HAND WAS BETWEEN THE BLOCK & DOG BONE SUDDENLY DOG BONE FELL SMASHING HIS RIGHT HAND

February 8, 1999 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Salt River Materials Group · Fall to the walkway or working surface

HE WAS PULLING ON A STUCCO BUTTERFLY VALVE BACK AND FORTH. IT BROKE FREE AND HE FELL BACKWARDS INJURING HIS R-LEG, UNDERNEATH HIS ARM AND R-SIDE OF HIS CHEST AND NECK.

January 11, 1999 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Salt River Materials Group · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

LIFTING PIPE OVER SMALL DIRT PILE TO ROLL OR DROP IN TRENCH. WHEN HE PUSHED THE PIPE AWAY AND RELEASED IT, HE STEPPED IN THE SOFT DIRT HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK AND DOWN HIS RIGHT LEG.

1998 · 4 incidents

December 11, 1998 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Salt River Materials Group · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE WAS HELPING 2 OF HIS COWORKERS LIFT A PIECE OF 4" PIPE OVER THE CONVEYOR, WHEN THEY SLID THE PIPE OVER THE BELT, THE PIPE TWISTED CAUSINGTHE EE'S BACK INJURY

November 9, 1998 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Salt River Materials Group · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

WHEN SITTING DOWN ON A FOLDING CHAIR THAT WASN'T UNFOLDED ALL THE WAY HE HAD HIS FINGER BETWEEN THE BACK SUPPORT POST AND LEG (FRAME) WHICH PINCHED HIS NAIL WHEN HE SAT DOWN AND HE PULLED THE NAIL OFF.

November 5, 1998 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Salt River Materials Group · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

USING PRY BAR ON FEED GATE AND THE BAR SLIPPED OFF SMASHING HIS RIGHT FINGER BETWEEN THE BAR AND THE I BEAM ON TOP OF THE TUNNEL.

August 11, 1998 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Salt River Materials Group · Fall onto or against objects

HE STEPPED DOWN OFF THE SILO, TURNED AND TRIPPED OVER THE SCALE RAIL CAUSING HIM TO FALL ON HIS RIGHT SIDE STRIKING A CEMENT BLOCK.

1997 · 1 incident

August 28, 1997 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Salt River Materials Group · Fall from machine

HE WAS CHANGING THE OIL AND AIR FILTER ON THE GENSET WHEN HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL, LANDING ON HIS RIGHT SIDE, ON THE DIRT.'