Mining Incidents

Yerington Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Grant B Smith
yerington, Lyon County, NV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2602346

Yerington Plant has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties and $24 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

Watch this mine

Email me when a new MSHA incident is filed at Yerington Plant.

Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2000–2007
Latest incident
Mar 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
66
citations
15
significant & substantial
$21,814
proposed penalties
$17,101
paid to date
78% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,713 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
23
inspections on record
352
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: 352 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Yerington Plant has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties and $24 outstanding across 3 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.
$22K
proposed penalties
$17K
current assessed
$17K
paid to date
$24
outstanding
62 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-03-06.
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
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q3 1,033 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 3,634 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 3,292 9 4 2733.9
2011 Q4 3,159 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 2,135 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
Show 43 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2010 Q3 1,875 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,641 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1,500 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,522 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,500 4 0 2666.7
2009 Q2 4,376 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 2,146 2 0 932.0
2008 Q4 2,847 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 3,367 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 3,825 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 3,318 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 2,684 2 0 745.2
2007 Q3 3,169 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 2,449 7 4 2858.3
2007 Q1 2,344 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 3,170 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 3,074 8 3 2602.5
2006 Q2 3,137 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 2,919 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,134 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 4,462 9 3 2017.0
2005 Q2 2,562 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,566 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 2,410 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 2,567 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,884 11 0 5838.6
2004 Q1 1,658 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,035 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,576 2 0 1269.0
2003 Q2 2,149 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,300 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,414 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,745 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,656 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 1,512 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,949 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,048 4 1 1953.1
2001 Q2 2,080 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 1,750 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,500 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,000 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,750 7 0 4000.0
2000 Q1 1,750 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2007 · 1 incident

March 7, 2007 NV · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Grant Smith Aggregates Inc · Fall onto or against objects

While cleaning cone crusher, left foot slipped letting me fall against the edge of cone on my left side rib cage.

2006 · 2 incidents

October 17, 2006 NV · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator STRIKING OR BUMPING
Grant Smith Aggregates Inc · Struck against stationary object

Got out of loader, walked under feed belt and hit his head.

January 30, 2006 NV · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Grant Smith Aggregates Inc · Struck against stationary object

Cleaning grizzly kneeling down, small rock under right knee. Injury was not reported to us until 2/1/06.

2000 · 1 incident

July 12, 2000 NV · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Grant Smith Aggregates Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

PLANT SHUT DOWN TO REMOVE ROCKS FROM GRIZZLY. GRIZZLY CLEANED TO EXPOSE ROCKS.

For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants

The full compliance file on Yerington Plant

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.