Mining Incidents

Watson Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Maxwell L Johnson III
Denham Springs, St Helena County, LA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1601362

Watson Pit has $2K 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
17
citations
9
significant & substantial
$2,185
proposed penalties
$2,185
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
14
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.

Watson Pit has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
17 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2013-12-04.
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
2014 Q3 1,717 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,338 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 3,837 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 3,041 7 2 2301.9
2013 Q3 3,166 2 2 631.7
2013 Q2 3,164 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 3,499 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 3,983 0 0 0.0
Show 18 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2012 Q3 3,445 3 2 870.8
2012 Q2 5,232 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 4,161 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 8,164 3 1 367.5
2011 Q3 3,756 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,599 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 0 0 0
2002 Q3 10,913 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 26,600 1 1 37.6
2002 Q1 1,133 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,140 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,584 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 3,164 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 2,118 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,890 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,049 1 1 488.0
2000 Q2 2,173 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,663 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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A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.