Mining Incidents

Westside Trucking-Ray Road Pit: 88 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Westside Trucking · Surface
Controlled by John J Bredfield
Toledo, Lewis County, WA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4503551

Westside Trucking-Ray Road Pit has $45K in proposed MSHA penalties and $26K 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 2003
88
citations
23
significant & substantial
$45,440
proposed penalties
$19,180
paid to date
42% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $26,260 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
12
inspections on record
244
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: 244 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Westside Trucking-Ray Road Pit has $45K in proposed MSHA penalties and $26K 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.
$45K
proposed penalties
$45K
current assessed
$19K
paid to date
$26K
outstanding
88 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-10-30.
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.
26.1%
significant & substantial
5.7%
high negligence or reckless
26.1%
reasonably likely or greater
71.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 8.0% low, 86.4% moderate, 5.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2005-03-09, 21 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Aluminum oxide fumes1
  • Arsenic fumes1
  • Beryllium fumes1
  • Cadmium oxide fumes1
Show the individual readings (16)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2005-03-09 Aluminum oxide fumes 0.05 20 0.00 Welder, etc.
2005-03-09 Arsenic fumes 0 1500 0.00 Welder, etc.
2005-03-09 Beryllium fumes 0 6 0.00 Welder, etc.
2005-03-09 Cadmium oxide fumes 0 100 0.00 Welder, etc.
2005-03-09 Chromium, insoluble 0 3 0.00 Welder, etc.
2005-03-09 Cobalt fumes 0 300 0.00 Welder, etc.
2005-03-09 Copper fumes 3.94 300 0.01 Welder, etc.
2005-03-09 Iron oxide fumes 0.09 20 0.00 Welder, etc.
2005-03-09 Lead fumes 0 450 0.00 Welder, etc.
2005-03-09 Magnesium oxide fumes 0 20 0.00 Welder, etc.
2005-03-09 Manganese fumes 0 5 0.00 Welder, etc.
2005-03-09 Molybdenum fumes 0 20 0.00 Welder, etc.
2005-03-09 Nickel fumes 0 3 0.00 Welder, etc.
2005-03-09 Titanium dioxide fumes 0 20 0.00 Welder, etc.
2005-03-09 Vanadium fumes 0 50 0.00 Welder, etc.
2005-03-09 Zinc oxide fumes 0.04 10 0.00 Welder, etc.
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.
Ownership history
  1. Westside Trucking 2003 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2009 0
2008 5
2007 8
2006 8
2005 6
2004 6
2003 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Westside Trucking-Ray Road Pit sits in Lewis County, Washington, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Lewis County, Washington · Population 83,925
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$69,690
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
2009 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q1 2,573 21 6 8161.7
2007 Q4 3,739 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 3,182 12 2 3771.2
2007 Q2 2,538 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 2,833 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 3,104 0 0 0.0
Show 13 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2006 Q3 2,872 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 3,106 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 2,263 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 3,027 10 3 3303.6
2005 Q3 2,332 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,448 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,473 7 0 4752.2
2004 Q4 2,222 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,950 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,799 3 1 1667.6
2003 Q4 1,242 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 852 17 4 19953.1
2003 Q2 106 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.