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#0521 Guaranteed Wash Plant: 35 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by CRH PLC
Mankato, Blue Earth County, MN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2100521

#0521 Guaranteed Wash Plant has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2007
Latest incident
Jul 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
35
citations
7
significant & substantial
$3,691
proposed penalties
$3,548
paid to date
96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $143 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Southern MN Construction's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
23
inspections on record
209
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘ This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 209 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

#0521 Guaranteed Wash Plant has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
ⓘ Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
35 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
Of $1K in penalties contested before the Commission, $816 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-06-30.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘ Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
20.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
20.0%
reasonably likely or greater
80.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 20.0% low, 80.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
9 citations taken to the federal commission · 26% of citations on record
  • Settled 5 · 56%
  • Stood as issued 3 · 33%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 11%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
23%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1K proposed, $816 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2008-03-17.
Contested penalties
ⓘ A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
LAKE 2008-45M Dismissal Feldman 2008 $308 → $308
LAKE 2007-214M Settlement Zielinski 2008 $300 → $300
LAKE 2007-213M Settlement Zielinski 2008 $243 → $100
LAKE 2008-216 Settlement Manning 2009 $208 → $108
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘ A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘ Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2004-04-20, 22 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
5
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (5)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2004-04-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 0.43 0.53 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-04-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-04-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-04-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-04-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Guaranteed Gravel & Sand Company Inc 1950 to 1995
  2. Southern Minnesota Construction Company, Inc 1995 to 2008
  3. Southern MN Construction 2008 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2010 2
2009 3
2008 4
2007 5
2006 3
2005 6
2004 6
2003 6
2002 6
2001 5
2000 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

#0521 Guaranteed Wash Plant sits in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, where the Census mining category is 0.1% of county employment.

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.
Blue Earth County, Minnesota · Population 69,386
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$72,623
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
ⓘ Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2010 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,579 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 962 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,760 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 2,034 2 0 983.3
2009 Q1 580 0 0 0.0
Show 36 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q4 943 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 2,724 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,961 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 651 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 2,490 1 0 401.6
2007 Q3 3,185 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 2,917 7 1 2399.7
2007 Q1 748 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,880 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 2,966 1 1 337.2
2006 Q2 2,905 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 2,400 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 3,835 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 4,290 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,501 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 3,190 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 4,615 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 4,290 1 0 233.1
2004 Q1 801 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,400 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 4,290 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 3,900 5 0 1282.1
2003 Q1 2,900 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 2,700 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 4,290 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 4,290 9 2 2097.9
2002 Q1 1,201 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 2,520 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 3,770 3 1 795.8
2001 Q2 2,687 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 739 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 2,628 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 3,686 6 2 1627.8
2000 Q2 3,789 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,539 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2007 · 1 incident