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Mines in Wadena County, Minnesota

Wadena County, Minnesota has 8 mines on MSHA's register: 4 intermittent, 4 abandoned. 2 accidents have been reported at these mines between 1996 and 2004. Inspectors have issued 176 citations.

Every mine MSHA has registered in Wadena County, working or not, with the accident, fatality and citation record each one carries on this site. Active mines are listed first, then the rest by the weight of their record.

Abandoned and historical mine features in Wadena County →

Mines on register
8
Active
0
Fatalities on record
0
Citations issued
176
0 underground · 8 surface · 0 facilities 0 coal · 8 metal and non-metal 4 intermittent 4 abandoned 2 reported accidents, 1996–2004
Local economic context
ⓘ County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Wadena County, Minnesota · Population 14,135
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$56,882
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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MSHA-registered mine, any status

Mines plot only where MSHA holds a surveyed coordinate for the site; mines the agency locates to a town, county or state centroid are in the counts and the list above but not drawn. Click a point for the mine's status and record.

Operators with the most mines herecurrent operator of record
Operator Mines Active Fatalities
Menahga Concrete Products, Inc. 2 0 0
Becker Transport & Aggregate 1 0 0
Ben Olson 1 0 0
Duininck Brothers & Gilchrist 1 0 0
Moench Excavating 1 0 0
Quarve & Anderson Company 1 0 0
Wadena Asphalt Inc 1 0 0
Mines in Wadena County8 on register
  1. #02-160-Pit/Menahga Concrete Prod Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Menahga Concrete Products, Inc. · MSHA ID 2102725
    Intermittent
  2. Marquette Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wadena Asphalt Inc · MSHA ID 2102892
    Intermittent
  3. Washplant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Menahga Concrete Products, Inc. · MSHA ID 2103164
    Intermittent
  4. Moench
    Surface metal/non-metal · Moench Excavating · MSHA ID 2103481
    Abandoned
  5. Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ben Olson · MSHA ID 2103222
    Abandoned
  6. Sebeka
    Surface metal/non-metal · Becker Transport & Aggregate · MSHA ID 2104076
    Intermittent
  7. Oelkers Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quarve & Anderson Company · MSHA ID 2100103
    Abandoned
  8. Schmitz Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Duininck Brothers & Gilchrist · MSHA ID 2102512
    Abandoned

Status, type and operator are as reported to MSHA. Fatality and accident counts are MSHA's reportable accident records for the mine; citations are inspector-issued violations on record. Each mine's own page carries the full detail.

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How to read these numbers

The register is MSHA's Mine Data Retrieval System: every operation ever assigned a mine ID, including ones abandoned decades ago, so the count is a history of mining in the county, not a count of working mines. A mine's county is the one its operator reported to MSHA. Fatality and accident counts start with MSHA's reportable-accident records (1983 onward); citation counts are inspector-issued violations on record. We are an independent research tool, not MSHA.