Remember to honk your horn if you move your vehicle (car, pickup, truck, loader, etc.) when you move either forward or backward at your mine site. Also, even personal vehicles need to be chocked when you are in the mining area. The rules say that if you are on flat ground, you don't need to, but do it anyway because some inspectors are handing out citations even then.
In addition, make sure that your toilets are flushed. Apparently, "if it's yellow, let it mellow" does not fly with some MSHA inspectors. Speaking of bathrooms, another operator who had 3 guys out in the woods rock crushing got fined for not having an outhouse available.
Keep the garbage can lids in your break room covered at all times. An Oregon mining operation got a ticket for an empty potato chip wrapper in an uncovered kitchen garbage can. True story.
Then MSHA complains that everybody is fighting their citations and clogging up the court system for years. Even the little tickets above can go toward a Pattern of Violations history.
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