Mining Incidents

Western Rock Reduction Portable #2 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Gary Weathers
Medford, Jackson County, OR  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3503624

Western Rock Reduction Portable #2 has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2007
Latest incident
Feb 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
32
citations
5
significant & substantial
$2,337
proposed penalties
$2,282
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $55 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
4
inspections on record
63
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: 63 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Western Rock Reduction Portable #2 has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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
32 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-06-12.
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
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 24 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 0 0 0
2008 Q2 0 0 0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 1,356 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 3,503 5 1 1427.3
Show 7 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2007 Q1 1,652 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 16 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 0 0 0
2006 Q2 1,110 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 1 0
2005 Q4 424 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 925 26 4 28108.1
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2007 · 1 incident

February 9, 2007 OR · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Western Rock Reduction Co. · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Digging rock material from conveyor belt tail pulley, tool was a shovel. Injured on 2/9/07 and came right back to work, went back to the doctor on 3/5/07. Doctor scheduled surgery for 3/8/07. RTW on 3/28/07.

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