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Mines in Day County, South Dakota

Day County, South Dakota has 16 mines on MSHA's register: 2 intermittent, 12 abandoned. Inspectors have issued 134 citations.

Every mine MSHA has registered in Day 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 Day County →

Mines on register
16
Active
0
Fatalities on record
0
Citations issued
134
0 underground · 16 surface · 0 facilities 0 coal · 16 metal and non-metal 2 intermittent 12 abandoned
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.
Day County, South Dakota · Population 5,460
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$62,270
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
Day County Highway Department 2 0 0
Kriech Construction 2 0 0
Batie Excavating 1 0 0
Campbell Construction Company 1 0 0
Carlson Pit and Mill 1 0 0
Gene Steffes Construction 1 0 0
Hanlon Brothers 1 0 0
J.E.M. Landscaping 1 0 0
Jerome Donahue-Owner 1 0 0
Loiseau Construction Inc 1 0 0
Mines in Day County16 on register
  1. Unit # 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanlon Brothers · MSHA ID 3901320
    Intermittent
  2. Kriech Construction
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kriech Construction · MSHA ID 3901419
    Abandoned
  3. Portable Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Webster Scale · MSHA ID 3901447
    Intermittent
  4. Carlson Pit and Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carlson Pit and Mill · MSHA ID 3901206
    Temporarily Idled
  5. Screen Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kriech Construction · MSHA ID 3901563
    Temporarily Idled
  6. Portable #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Loiseau Construction Inc · MSHA ID 3901427
    Abandoned
  7. Batie Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Batie Excavating · MSHA ID 3901078
    Abandoned
  8. Day City Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Campbell Construction Company · MSHA ID 3900946
    Abandoned
  9. Day County Screening Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Day County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3900961
    Abandoned
  10. Donahue Sand And Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jerome Donahue-Owner · MSHA ID 3900861
    Abandoned
  11. Ellington Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reynolds Construction Company · MSHA ID 3901029
    Abandoned
  12. Flickertail Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J.E.M. Landscaping · MSHA ID 3901470
    Abandoned
  13. Gronke Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Day County Highway Department · MSHA ID 3901050
    Abandoned
  14. K & O
    Surface metal/non-metal · Opitz Gravel · MSHA ID 3901517
    Abandoned
  15. Opitz Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · T & D Graveling · MSHA ID 3901276
    Abandoned
  16. PORTABLE UNIT #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gene Steffes Construction · MSHA ID 3901287
    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.