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: 128 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Wells Cargo Mine has $360 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.
$360
proposed penalties
$360
current assessed
$360
paid to date
$0
outstanding
5 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2000-06-28.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Wells Cargo Mine recorded 24.97 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2000.
Injury rate, 2000
ⓘ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.
24.97
total case rate
8.32
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.77 and the all-US-mining average was 5.64 cases per 100 workers.
In Idaho, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 8.97 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.
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2002
0
2001
3
2000
9
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Wells Cargo Mine sits in Power County, Idaho, 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.
Power County, Idaho · Population 8,018
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$59,760
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
2002 Q3
0
0
0
2002 Q2
0
0
0
2002 Q1
0
0
0
2001 Q4
184
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
900
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
174
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
2,955
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
4,172
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2000 Q3
10,563
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
8,107
5
1
616.8
2000 Q1
1,191
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
8 on file
2001 · 1 incident
January 30, 2001ID · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING DOZER AFTER CHECKING COOLANT LEVEL HE SLIPPED ON THE DOZER TRACK AND HIS LEG WENT BETWEEN THE TRACK AND FRAME OF DOZER, TWISTING HIS KNEE.
August 14, 2000ID · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EE REPORTED THAT ON THE WEEKEND AT HOME HE HAD INJURED HIS KNEE. LATER HIS DR. SAID THAT IT WAS WORK RELATED. WORKERS COMPENSATION HAS DETERMINED THAT IT WAS NOT WORK RELATED AND WE ARE REPORT ING THIS TO SATISFY LEGAL REQUIREMENTS.
August 7, 2000ID · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
EE WAS GRINDING A PIECE OF PIPE, A SLIVER OF METAL STRUCK HIS RT EYE.
April 26, 1999ID · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS