Mining Incidents

Wheeler-Hagan Rock Quarry: 34 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Jim Wheeler Logging & Rock · Surface
Controlled by James B Wheeler Jr
Phillipsville, Humboldt County, CA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0405618

Wheeler-Hagan Rock Quarry has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2005
34
citations
7
significant & substantial
$3,925
proposed penalties
$3,925
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
21
inspections on record
275
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: 275 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Wheeler-Hagan Rock Quarry has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
33 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2021-09-02.
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.
21.2%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
21.2%
reasonably likely or greater
39.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% 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: 2009-07-01, 17 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2009-07-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader 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.
Ownership history
  1. Wheeler Lumber Company, Inc 2004 to 2011
  2. Wheeler Rock Inc. 2011 to 2020
  3. A & W Logging and Construction 2020 to 2022
  4. Jim Wheeler Logging & Rock 2022 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2024 0
2023 1
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2015 0
2014 1
2013 2
2012 2
2011 2
2010 1
2009 1
2008 1
2007 2
2006 4
2005 3
2004 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Wheeler-Hagan Rock Quarry sits in Humboldt County, California, 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.
Humboldt County, California · Population 135,418
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$61,135
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
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 6 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,020 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 929 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,500 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,512 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 920 0 0 0.0
Show 48 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q4 1,735 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,740 2 1 1149.4
2021 Q2 750 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 495 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 526 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 579 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 956 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,001 3 0 2997.0
2015 Q3 0 0 0
2014 Q2 24 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 20 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 16 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 20 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 24 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 48 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 20 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 16 3 0 187500.0
2011 Q4 120 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 480 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 608 4 1 6578.9
2011 Q1 418 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,040 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,172 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 0 4 1
2009 Q3 233 1 0 4291.8
2009 Q2 171 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 13 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 21 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 330 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 490 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 267 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 511 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 541 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 521 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 928 4 3 4310.3
2006 Q3 1,445 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,212 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 703 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 591 2 0 3384.1
2005 Q3 837 11 1 13142.2
2005 Q2 722 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 440 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 532 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.