Data / Mines / Alaska / Lester Bench
Lester Bench, Nome, Alaska: 1 MSHA citation
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Lester Bench is an intermittent construction sand and gravel surface mine in Nome, Alaska, operated by Tumet Industries, LLC with 4 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 5002082). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 1 citation and orders there with $151 in proposed penalties, and 0 accident reports were filed there, with no injury or illness cases.
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- MSHA mine ID
- 5002082
- Status
- Intermittent since August 7, 2025
- Main commodity
- Construction sand and gravel
- Mine type
- Surface
- County
- Nome, Alaska
- Nearest town
- Nome
- Operator
- Tumet Industries, LLC
- Employees
- 4
- MSHA field office
- Anchorage AK Field Office
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 1
- Significant and substantial
- 0 (0.0%)
- Closure orders
- 0
- High negligence or reckless
- 0
- Proposed penalties
- $151
- Amount paid so far
- $151
- Inspections
- 4
- Inspector hours on site
- 4
- Citations per inspection
- 0.25 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 0
- Injury and illness cases
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Latest MSHA record
- September 3, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | $151 | 0 |
Standards cited most at Lester Bench
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 56.16005 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
Other open mines in Nome, Alaska
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mammoth Valley Mining LLC | Mammoth Valley Mining, LLC | Nome, AK | Gold ore | 9 | 7 |
| Glacier Creek Mine | Northwest Gold Diggers | Nome, AK | Gold ore | 4 | 4 |
| Satelite Field | Alaska Gold Company | Nome, AK | Sand, common | 4 | 3 |
| Swanberg | Arctic Placer Drilling & Mining LLC | Nome, AK | Gold ore | 5 | 2 |
| Knik Crusher #2 | Knik Construction | Nome, AK | Crushed, broken stone | 2 | 2 |
| Kougarok Dredge Pit | N B Tweet & Sons LLC | Nome, AK | Gold ore | 5 | 1 |
| Kiewit Portable Unit | Kiewit Infrastructure West Co | Nome, AK | Construction sand and gravel | 5 | 1 |
| Screen Deck | Sound Quarry Inc. | Nome, AK | Dimension stone | 5 | 1 |
| Dry Gulch LLC | Dry Gulch LLC | Nome, AK | Gold ore | 3 | 1 |
| Sound Quarry Rock Sorter | Sound Quarry Inc. | Nome, AK | Construction sand and gravel | 5 | 0 |
| Cape Nome Quarry | Kiewit Infrastructure West Co | Nome, AK | Crushed, broken stone | 5 | 0 |
| Kiewit Portable Unit | Kiewit Infrastructure West Co | Nome, AK | Crushed, broken stone | 5 | 0 |
| Nome Screener | State of Alaska Department Of Transportation | Nome, AK | Construction sand and gravel | 4 | 0 |
| Tripple Creek Mine | Metallogeny, Inc. | Nome, AK | Gold ore | 4 | 0 |
| Thunderbird Crusher | Board Of Trade Inc | Nome, AK | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 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.