Mining Incidents

Northfork Excavating Inc: 2 recorded fatalities operator

Controlled by Debbie J Eaton
MSHA operator ID: L14078

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Fatalities
2
Total incidents
3
Mines on record
1
Years on record
1997–2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
118
citations
27
significant & substantial
$54,172
proposed penalties
$54,172
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
53
inspections on record
959
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: 959 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
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.
$54K
proposed penalties
$54K
current assessed
$54K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
117 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2015-08-04.
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.
23.1%
significant & substantial
6.0%
high negligence or reckless
22.2%
reasonably likely or greater
75.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 23.1% low, 70.9% moderate, 6.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2015
This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.26 and the all-US-mining average was 2.72 cases per 100 workers.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2015 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2008 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2007 * 5.53 5.53 0.000
2006 * 5.82 5.82 5.824
2005 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2004 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2002 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
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: 2015-02-26, 11 years ago
13
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz7
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg6
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.

Top causes

Incident timeline

2007
1
2006
1 (1f)
1997
1 (1f)

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

2 recorded
January 27, 2006 OR · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer Fatality · MACHINERY
Northfork Excavating Inc · Drowning

WORKER WAS OPERATING A D6M CAT CRAWLER DOZER AND BACKED OVER HIGHWALL IN MINE INTO WATER-FILLED PIT AND DIED DUE TO DROWNING.

February 3, 1997 OR · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Northfork Excavating Inc · Drowning

MOVIGN MATERIAL TO CRUSHER SITE. HAD JUST BEEN LOADED ON A 30 TRUCK. DROVE OFF ROADWAY, TRUCK SAID OVER ON SIDE IN WATER. HOSPITAL WILL KNOW CAUSE OF DEATH.

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Where Northfork Excavating Inc stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

MSHA's standard limits respirable silica to 50 micrograms per cubic metre, but MSHA publishes dust and quartz as separate files and never the silica figure itself. We derive it per sample, score it against the limit, and set the operator's injury rate against a benchmark built from the full MSHA operator record. With the 26-year penalty trail, contest posture, and fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.

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