Mining Incidents

WHITE QUARRY Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Mary Ruth Smith Estate
Kettle Falls, Stevens County, WA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4500808

WHITE QUARRY has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 2 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
52
citations
27
significant & substantial
$11,458
proposed penalties
$10,116
paid to date
88% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,342 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
24
inspections on record
316
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: 316 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

WHITE QUARRY has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 2 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
52 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-05-20.
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
2013 Q3 0 0 0
2013 Q2 0 0 0
2012 Q4 83 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 0 0 0
2012 Q2 0 0 0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 0 0 0
2011 Q3 0 0 0
Show 46 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2011 Q2 74 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 223 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 0 0 0
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q1 24 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 315 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 499 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 369 4 2 10840.1
2009 Q1 0 1 0
2008 Q4 232 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 360 19 13 52777.8
2008 Q2 0 0 0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 240 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 240 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 0 1 0
2007 Q1 488 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,134 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,050 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,440 1 0 694.4
2006 Q1 80 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,264 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,232 2 1 1623.4
2005 Q2 1,496 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,000 2 0 2000.0
2004 Q4 520 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 602 1 0 1661.1
2004 Q2 297 15 11 50505.1
2004 Q1 928 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,024 1 0 976.6
2003 Q3 963 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,360 5 0 3676.5
2003 Q1 936 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,200 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,098 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,150 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 1,140 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 728 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,536 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,200 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 906 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,257 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,226 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 746 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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The full compliance file on WHITE QUARRY

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.