Mining Incidents

Westfall Metal/Non-Metal

Circleville, Pickaway County, OH  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3304563

Westfall has $55K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 16 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 2006
137
citations
30
significant & substantial
$54,572
proposed penalties
$47,694
paid to date
87% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $6,878 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
57
inspections on record
830
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: 830 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Westfall has $55K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 16 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.
$55K
proposed penalties
$48K
current assessed
$48K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
134 assessments are final orders; 16 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-04.
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
2025 Q4 1,802 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,868 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,253 1 0 443.9
2025 Q1 1,315 2 0 1520.9
2024 Q4 2,220 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,132 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,362 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,773 1 0 564.0
Show 68 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,288 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,124 2 0 941.6
2023 Q2 2,546 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,563 1 0 639.8
2022 Q4 2,833 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,438 2 0 820.3
2022 Q2 1,105 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,397 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,177 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,455 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,419 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,839 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,163 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,442 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,917 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,183 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,319 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,750 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,583 10 0 6317.1
2019 Q1 1,624 3 0 1847.3
2018 Q4 3,194 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 4,062 1 0 246.2
2018 Q2 3,490 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,974 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 3,632 4 0 1101.3
2017 Q3 4,365 8 1 1832.8
2017 Q2 3,621 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 3,217 5 0 1554.2
2016 Q4 3,216 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 4,154 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 3,892 6 1 1541.6
2016 Q1 3,276 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 3,999 4 3 1000.3
2015 Q3 3,395 9 2 2651.0
2015 Q2 3,267 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,985 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,532 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,265 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,721 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 3,383 1 0 295.6
2013 Q3 3,415 4 2 1171.3
2013 Q2 4,381 6 1 1369.6
2013 Q1 1,855 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 5,069 1 1 197.3
2011 Q4 3,919 4 3 1020.7
2011 Q3 4,235 5 0 1180.6
2011 Q2 4,038 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 849 8 4 9422.9
2010 Q4 2,588 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 4,150 8 6 1927.7
2010 Q2 3,761 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1,973 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 2,665 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 3,517 14 3 3980.7
2009 Q2 3,313 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1,704 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 3,333 12 1 3600.4
2008 Q3 3,463 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 3,188 6 0 1882.1
2008 Q1 770 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 2,289 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 5,194 4 0 770.1
2007 Q2 5,299 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 3,062 1 0 326.6
2006 Q4 3,101 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 2,954 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 4,744 4 2 843.2
2006 Q1 3,702 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.