Mining Incidents

WHITNEY PIT: 41 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Whitney Construction Inc · Surface
Controlled by Leon Whitney
ELK CREEK, Glenn County, CA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0405387

WHITNEY PIT 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 2000
41
citations
9
significant & substantial
$4,110
proposed penalties
$4,110
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
23
inspections on record
190
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: 190 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

WHITNEY PIT 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
41 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-02-12.
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.
22.0%
significant & substantial
4.9%
high negligence or reckless
22.0%
reasonably likely or greater
41.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.3% low, 87.8% moderate, 4.9% 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: 2009-06-02, 17 years ago
2
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2009-06-02 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Backhoe Operator
2009-06-02 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. Whitney Construction Inc 1999 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2013 1
2012 2
2011 2
2010 3
2009 6
2008 5
2007 5
2006 3
2005 1
2004 5
2003 1
2002 2
2001 1
2000 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

WHITNEY PIT sits in Glenn County, California, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Glenn County, California · Population 28,623
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$70,487
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
2013 Q4 0 0 0
2013 Q3 2 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 9 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 10 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 13 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 50 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 110 0 0 0.0
Show 44 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2011 Q2 13 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 48 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 101 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 116 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 177 8 2 45197.7
2009 Q3 1,214 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 553 5 3 9041.6
2009 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 145 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 299 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 14 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 351 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 591 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 281 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 286 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 588 3 1 5102.0
2006 Q3 345 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 111 5 0 45045.0
2006 Q1 86 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 78 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 60 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 56 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 92 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 139 3 0 21582.7
2004 Q2 377 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 108 9 1 83333.3
2003 Q4 341 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 0 3 0
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 831 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,784 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 384 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 150 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,000 2 2 2000.0
2001 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 400 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 150 1 0 6666.7
2000 Q3 350 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 300 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 336 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.