Mining Incidents

Lucerne Valley Metal/Non-Metal

Robertson's · Surface
Lucerne Valley, San Bernardino County, CA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0405690

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2006–2023
Latest incident
Feb 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
102
citations
21
significant & substantial
$43,414
proposed penalties
$40,800
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 5,884 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 7,220 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 5,189 1 0 192.7
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
2024 Q2 3,597 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,120 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2023 · 1 incident

February 16, 2023 CA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Robertson's · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Miner has had an audiometric standard threshold shift in R-ear, pending retest, which results won't be available within the 10-day reporting criteria. Miner stated hobbies as music and guns, and worked with hearing protection directly before the initial test was performed.

2020 · 1 incident

March 4, 2020 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Robertson's · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Manual Labor, shoveling, clean up. Miner has a left inguinal hernia.

2019 · 1 incident

November 12, 2019 CA · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Robertson's · Fall to the walkway or working surface

miner tripped and fell injuring EE's right shoulder, right shoulder contusion injury

2013 · 1 incident

April 17, 2013 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Robertson's · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The primary jaw had bridged over causing rocks to overflow the jaw. The injured miner was cleaning rocks off the deck and misjudged the distance between the rock in his hand and another rock. The result was a broken left index finger.

2006 · 2 incidents

November 7, 2006 CA · Metal/Non-Metal assistant mine foreman, assistant mine manager SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Robertson's · Fall from machine

EE was inside the cone crusher inspecting the crusher for a problem and opened the hatch door to let some fresh air into the inspection area, after several minutes he forgot the hatch was open and leaned back and fell through the door and fell approximately 10 feet.

August 19, 2006 CA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Robertson's · Struck by falling object

Employee fabricated a lifting device out of steel to lift a sheave for a v-belt drive assembly, upon lifting the sheave one of his weld broke and the sheave dropped a couple feet hitting the ground and rolling over his right foot, thus he incurred a bruised right foot needing a few days to recover.