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Portable Wash Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Ellensburg Cement Products Inc · Surface

Controlled by James Hutchinson

Ellensburg, WA, Kittitas County, WA · Intermittent

MSHA Mine ID: 4503330

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2002–2021
Latest incident: Jul 2021

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2002

citations

significant & substantial

$30,680

proposed penalties

$30,580

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	609	0	0	0.0
2025 Q3	628	3	1	4777.1
2025 Q2	10	0	0	0.0
2025 Q1	0	0	0
2024 Q4	10	0	0	0.0
2024 Q3	1,014	2	1	1972.4
2024 Q2	927	0	0	0.0
2024 Q1	0	0	0

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded

October 17, 2002 WA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator Fatality · MACHINERY

Ellensburg Cement Products Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WENT UP TO TOP OF CONVEYOR TO ATTACH CHAINS TO MOVE CONVEYOR. CO-WORKER MANUVERED BORROWED EXCAVATOR - WHEN HE HIT SWITCH TO LOCK OUT MACHINE THE BOOM CAME DOWN PINNING EE BETWEEN BUCKET AN D FRAME OF CONVEYOR.

Reportable incidents

1 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2021 · 1 incident

July 15, 2021 WA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Ellensburg Cement Products Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

IW and the supervisor were changing V-belts on the cyclone pump. The equipment was locked out and tagged out while working on it. IW looked away and caught the left index finger in/between the v-belt and pulley wheel causing a laceration.