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Western Rock Fast Pack: 61 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by CRH PLC
St. George, Mohave County, AZ  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4202099

Western Rock Fast Pack has $27K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 7 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
15
Years on record
1994–2025
Latest incident
Jan 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
61
citations
13
significant & substantial
$26,838
proposed penalties
$20,243
paid to date
75% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $6,595 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Western Rock Products's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
39
inspections on record
539
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: 539 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘ A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
2
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2015-11-30.
On record since 2012.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Western Rock Fast Pack has $27K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 7 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.
$27K
proposed penalties
$20K
current assessed
$20K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
59 assessments are final orders; 7 contested dockets.
Of $15K in penalties contested before the Commission, $8K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-04-21.
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.
22.0%
significant & substantial
20.3%
high negligence or reckless
22.0%
reasonably likely or greater
71.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 20.3% low, 59.3% moderate, 20.3% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
9 citations taken to the federal commission · 15% of citations on record
  • Settled 8 · 89%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 11%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 5 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
46%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$15K proposed, $8K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2016-05-12.
Contested penalties
ⓘ A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
WEST 2016-0468 Settlement Gill 2017 $8K → $4K
WEST 2011-1060M Settlement Gill 2013 $3K → $2K
WEST 2013-586M Settlement Lesnick 2013 $2K → $705
WEST 2013-472M Settlement Harner 2013 $946 → $946
WEST 2016-0231 Settlement Bulluck 2016 $200 → $200
WEST 2013-568M Withdrawal Gill 2013 $112 → $0
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2025-04-22
10%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
22
samples
10
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz101 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg12
Show the individual readings (22)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2004-03-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.31 0.88 1.49 Laborer, Bullgang
2025-04-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2025-04-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2025-04-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-04-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.44 0.45 Crusher Oper/Worker
2016-12-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-12-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bobcat Operator
2015-03-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-03-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2011-08-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-08-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 0.78 0.31 Crusher Oper/Worker
2011-08-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-08-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.38 0.52 0.73 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-02-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.7 1.03 0.68 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-02-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 0.83 0.34 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-02-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-02-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-03-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.32 0.82 0.39 Bulldozer Operator
2004-03-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.54 0.93 0.58 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-05-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.43 1.07 0.40 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-05-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.35 1 0.35 Cleanup Man
2003-05-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer 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.

Western Rock Fast Pack recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2019.

Injury rate, 2019
ⓘ 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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.94 and the all-US-mining average was 2.32 cases per 100 workers.
In Arizona, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.75 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
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2017 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2016 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2015 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2014 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2013 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2012 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2008 * 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. Cox Rock Products, Inc. 1993 to 2002
  2. Western Rock Products 2002 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 19
2025 14
2024 13
2022 11
2021 10
2020 9
2019 19
2018 19
2017 18
2016 17
2015 16
2014 15
2013 12
2012 13
2011 7
2010 9
2009 10
2008 11
2007 10
2006 10
2005 10
2004 10
2003 9
2002 0
2001 2
2000 11
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Western Rock Fast Pack sits in Mohave County, Arizona, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
Mohave County, Arizona · Population 217,420
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$55,799
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
2026 Q2 4,274 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 7,172 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 1,746 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,643 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,233 4 2 1237.2
2025 Q1 4,523 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,712 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
Show 89 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q3 3,280 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 5,356 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,340 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q3 6,586 1 0 151.8
2021 Q2 6,673 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 5,320 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 479 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 4,055 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 8,787 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 4,805 2 0 416.2
2019 Q1 6,865 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 7,841 1 1 127.5
2018 Q2 1,669 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 5,599 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 6,882 1 1 145.3
2017 Q3 6,575 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 7,659 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 8,410 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 7,799 1 0 128.2
2016 Q3 9,060 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 7,125 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 7,623 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 6,797 12 2 1765.5
2015 Q3 5,435 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 6,968 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 6,745 1 0 148.3
2014 Q4 6,409 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 6,807 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 7,565 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 7,674 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 5,496 1 0 182.0
2013 Q3 6,037 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 6,598 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 5,944 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 5,196 4 0 769.8
2012 Q3 6,651 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 7,045 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 6,201 2 0 322.5
2011 Q4 4,163 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 3,885 1 0 257.4
2011 Q2 3,588 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1,215 4 1 3292.2
2010 Q4 2,400 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 3,767 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 5,690 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 6,604 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 4,356 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 3,401 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 5,861 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 5,376 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 5,488 2 1 364.4
2008 Q3 3,528 6 2 1700.7
2008 Q2 7,200 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 7,280 4 0 549.5
2007 Q4 5,720 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 8,190 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,256 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 9,828 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 2,887 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 6,480 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 3,182 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 3,584 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 3,206 1 0 311.9
2005 Q3 4,250 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 6,968 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 6,109 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 7,690 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 4,210 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 5,080 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 6,760 5 1 739.6
2003 Q4 1,504 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 6,800 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 2,924 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 581 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 0 0 0
2002 Q2 0 0 0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 0 0 0
2001 Q3 570 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 404 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 118 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 46 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 7,680 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 6,196 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 6,271 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

15 on file

2025 · 1 incident

January 13, 2025 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Western Rock Products · Struck against stationary object

While removing an old piece of metal off the top deck of a discharge chute on a screening plant, the technician picked up the metal and it cut through the technician's glove and into finger causing a laceration.

2020 · 1 incident

November 5, 2020 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Western Rock Products · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

IE & co-worker were inserting a new belt, the choke rigging on the old belt was not going to hold through the process. IE lifted up on the slack of belt & co-worker attempted to cut a hole using the fixed serrated blade on EE's Leatherman. As EE attempted to cut a hole and applied pressure, the blade slipped off and struck IE puncturing the leg.

2004 · 2 incidents

August 10, 2004 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Western Rock Products · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Worker was shoveling at a screen plant. He felt a pain in his lower back. He continued his shift running a skid loader. He did not report the incident until the next day.

February 11, 2004 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Western Rock Products · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

BACK BEGAN HURTING DURING A TWO WEEK PERIOD FROM THE WEEK OF 2-5-04 TO 2-11-04. AFTER HIS SHIFT ON THE 11TH HE WENT TO A DOCTOR. THE FOLLOWING MONDAU HE CALLED HIS SUPERVISOR AND TOLD HIM HIS BACK WAS HURTING & HE WAS GOING TO TAKE A FEW DAYS OFF. NEVER INDICATED HE WAS INJURED AT WORK UNTIL 3-1-04.

2000 · 2 incidents

August 31, 2000 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cox Rock Products, Inc. · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS REMOVING JAW DIE WEDGE WHEN THE PORTA-POWER CYLINDER SLIPPED AND MASHED HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

January 13, 2000 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cox Rock Products, Inc. · Fall onto or against objects

EE WAS STEPPING OFF OF A BEL UNLOADER, SLIPPED ON A ROLLER, AND HIT RIBS AGAINST THE EDGE OF A LOADER BUCKET.

1999 · 1 incident

October 15, 1999 UT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Cox Rock Products, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS ASSISTING IN THE UNLOADING OF AN ALUMINUM CONTAINER WEIGHING APPROX. 1200 POUNDS. WHEN THE PALLET JACK WAS LOWERED, THE EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT THUMB WAS CAUGHT UNDER THE CONTAINER, RESU

1998 · 1 incident

January 27, 1998 UT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Cox Rock Products, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS OPERATING GRINDER, CUTTING PIECES OF METAL OFF OF FRAME. EE LOST GRIP ON GRINDER HANDLE, GRINDER SWUNG DOWN AND EE SUSTAINED LACERATION TO RT LEG.

1997 · 1 incident

April 22, 1997 UT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cox Rock Products, Inc. · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE WAS CLEANING OUT BAR MAC, SLIPPED ON LOOSE GRAVEL AND FELL. BAR IN RT HAND STRUCK RT THUMB WHEN IT HIT THE GROUND.

1996 · 2 incidents

April 12, 1996 UT · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cox Rock Products, Inc. · Fall from machine

FIXING THE FLASHING GUARD ON THE BELT, HAD HANDS FULL OF ROCK, STEPPED OVER SOME WIRES WHILE GETTING DOWN, SLIPPED ON SOME GRAVEL THAT WAS ON THE BELT CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO THE GROUND. NO DAM AGE TO EQUIPMENT.

January 25, 1996 UT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cox Rock Products, Inc. · Struck by falling object

INJURED WAS JUST GETTING READY TO START TO WORK,BEFORE PUTTING ON HIS STEEL TOED BOOTS,HE THOUGHT HE WOULD GET SOME BELT CLAMPS OUT OF THE BACK OF A TRUCK,HE HAD ONE ROLL ON THE EDGE OF THE TA ILGATE WHILE LAYING ANOTHER ON THE GROUND. DOOR WAS SHUT TO THE PICKUP TRUCK CAUSING THE ROLL OF CLAMPS TO FALL OFF TAILGATE ONTO HIS FOOT.NO DAMAGE TO EQUIPMENT WAS CAUSED.

1995 · 1 incident

December 20, 1995 UT · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cox Rock Products, Inc. · Fall from machine

EE WAS WELDING ON THE SCREEN TO THE CRUSHER BELT WHICH WAS ABOUT 6 TO 7' ABOVE GROUND. WAS GETTING DOWN FROM BELT FELL BACKWARDS OFF BELT. ELECTRICAL CORDS CAUGHT HIS LEG (RIGHT) HOLDING HIM SUSPENDED IN THE AIR. NO DAMAGE WAS DONE TO EQUIPMENT, ONE REPORTABLE INJURY FOR THIS ACCIDENT.

1994 · 3 incidents

June 6, 1994 UT · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Cox Rock Products, Inc. · Struck against a moving object

DRIVING DOZER. WAS BACKING UP HITTING A BANK OF DIRT CAUSING CENTRAL SPINE WHIPLASH.

April 22, 1994 UT · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cox Rock Products, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CUTTING RUBBER BELT WHEN THE KNIFE SLIPPED CUTTING MY THUMB.

April 18, 1994 UT · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cox Rock Products, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WE WERE BUILDIGN SUPPORT LEGS ONA FREE RUN SCREEN AND A JAW CRUSHER ASSEMBLY. LEGS WERE 1/2 INCH THICK 8 INCH BEAM FOUR FOOT IN LENGTH, LIFTING TEM IN PLACE AND HANGING ONA HINDLE IN PLACE.