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U S Hill Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Oglebay Norton Specialty Minerals Incorporated · Surface

Controlled by Oglebay Norton Company

Velaroe, Taos County, NM · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 2900608

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2002
Latest incident: Mar 2002

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

citations

significant & substantial

$2,997

proposed penalties

$2,742

paid to date

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Quarterly safety rates

Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA

Quarter	Hours worked	Per 1M hrs
2005 Q2	0
2004 Q4	0
2004 Q3	0
2004 Q1	0
2002 Q4	0
2002 Q3	0
2002 Q2	50	0.0
2002 Q1	35	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

1 on file

2002 · 1 incident

March 27, 2002 NM · Metal/Non-Metal FIRE

Oglebay Norton Specialty Minerals Incorporated · Accident type, without injuries

A CONTRACTOR PICKUP TRUCK CAUGHT FIRE. THE DRIVER COULD NOT CONTAIN IT AND GOT OTHER EES TO HELP. THEY GOT A LOADER AND A DOZER. THE DOZER WAS USED TO PUSH THE BURNING TRUCK AWAY FROM TREES AN D DEBRIS. THE LOADER WAS TO BE USED TO MAKE A FIRE LINE. WHEN THEY COULDN'T CONTAIN THE FIRE, THEY WAITED FOR THE FIRE DEPT. TO EXTINGUISH THE BLAZE.