Data / Mines / Washington / Nisqually Pit
Nisqually Pit: 55 MSHA citations
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Nisqually Pit is an active construction sand and gravel surface mine in Thurston County, Washington, operated by Holroyd Co Inc with 18 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 4500637). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 55 citations and orders there with $21,395 in proposed penalties, and 0 accident reports were filed there, with no injury or illness cases.
The request: Watch Nisqually Pit (MSHA mine ID 4500637) in Thurston County, Washington: each new citation and each accident report. $10 of work on sign-up, no card.
SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. It reads the mine, citation, inspection and accident files that MSHA publishes, and this page is that reading. Ask for the mines of a commodity, state or operator with the operator's headquarters, website and size added from the web, and new mines, new citations and new accident reports arrive in your sheet, CRM, Slack or agent as MSHA posts them.
- MSHA mine ID
- 4500637
- Status
- Active since December 4, 1985
- Main commodity
- Construction sand and gravel
- Mine type
- Surface
- County
- Thurston County, Washington
- Nearest town
- Olympia
- Operator
- Holroyd Co Inc
- Employees
- 18
- MSHA field office
- Kent WA Field Office
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 55
- Significant and substantial
- 9 (16.4%)
- Closure orders
- 1
- High negligence or reckless
- 0
- Proposed penalties
- $21,395
- Amount paid so far
- $14,101
- Inspections
- 14
- Inspector hours on site
- 176
- Citations per inspection
- 3.93 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 0
- Injury and illness cases
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Latest MSHA record
- May 29, 2026
Citations and injury cases by year
Calendar years since 2022; 2026 runs to the date of the MSHA files.
| Year | Citations and orders | Significant and substantial | Proposed penalties | Injury and illness cases |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | $449 | 0 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2 | $1,573 | 0 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2 | $3,535 | 0 |
| 2025 | 26 | 4 | $10,366 | 0 |
| 2026 | 4 | 1 | $5,472 | 0 |
Standards cited most at Nisqually Pit
Sections of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations named on the citations, with the part each belongs to.
| Standard | What the part covers | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 30 CFR 56.12032 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 6 |
| 30 CFR 56.14100 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 5 |
| 30 CFR 56.20003 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 5 |
| 30 CFR 56.14107 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 4 |
| 30 CFR 56.12004 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 4 |
| 30 CFR 56.12018 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 3 |
| 30 CFR 56.12013 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 3 |
| 30 CFR 56.12008 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 2 |
| 30 CFR 56.14109 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 2 |
| 30 CFR 56.16006 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.14110 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.12030 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.14112 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.18002 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.4200 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
Other open mines in Thurston County, Washington
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Littlerock | Black Lake Resources | Thurston County, WA | Construction sand and gravel | 4 | 67 |
| Tenino | Miles Sand & Gravel Co Inc | Thurston County, WA | Construction sand and gravel | 6 | 35 |
| Columbia Granite | Columbia Granite LLC | Thurston County, WA | Crushed, broken granite | 6 | 26 |
| Johnson Creek Quarry | Mountain Stone Aggregate | Thurston County, WA | Crushed, broken stone | 5 | 19 |
| Waldrick Road Pit | Deschutes Aggregate and Recycling, Inc. | Thurston County, WA | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 18 |
| Lacey | Miles Sand & Gravel Co Inc | Thurston County, WA | Construction sand and gravel | 4 | 9 |
| Plant B | Rock Services Inc. | Thurston County, WA | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 4 |
| Delphi Quarry | Brumfield Construction, Inc. | Thurston County, WA | Crushed, broken traprock | 2 | 1 |
| Part 48-F | Rock Services Inc. | Thurston County, WA | Crushed, broken stone | 7 | 0 |
US government work, public domain. Counts come from the MSHA files published on November 6, 2026. An open mine is one MSHA lists as Active, Intermittent, New Mine, Temporarily Idled or NonProducing; 13,673 were open that day. Citations, penalties, inspections and accident reports run from January 1, 2022. A citation is an inspector's allegation and an operator can contest it; the penalty is the amount MSHA first proposed, before any contest or settlement. An operator is the legal entity MSHA assesses, and a parent company is its controller. Mines run by sole proprietors or by individuals are counted in every total and are not named. This page uses MSHA data and is not endorsed or certified by MSHA. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.