Mining Incidents

Valley Sand and Rock, Inc operator

Controlled by James Bradley Slender
MSHA operator ID: 0050978
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2009–2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
640
citations
272
significant & substantial
$1,543,392
proposed penalties
$348,626
paid to date
23% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,194,766 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
108
inspections on record
2,294
inspection hours
27.9
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.
640 citations across 2,294 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$1.5M
proposed penalties
$851K
current assessed
$349K
paid to date
$503K
outstanding
621 assessments are final orders; 30 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-04-28.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2014
1
2013
4
2009
2

Mines on record

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