Mining Incidents

PLANT NO 7 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Greg Bruening
Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1302157

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2000–2009
Latest incident
Mar 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
116
citations
40
significant & substantial
$18,207
proposed penalties
$18,027
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 1,850 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,175 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,314 4 1 1728.6
2025 Q1 185 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,996 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,389 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,340 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 184 0 0 0.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2009 · 1 incident

March 4, 2009 IA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Wiltgen Construction Company · Fall from machine

Operator missed a step when getting out of loader and fell to the ground and broke hip.

2008 · 1 incident

August 18, 2008 IA · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator MACHINERY
Wiltgen Construction Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Adding drill steel to drill deeper, hoisting steel to top of tower, load squeal from top of mast. He looked up to see if jammed or broken. Looked back and steel swung contacting operator on righr eye cutting eyelid and rupturing blood vessels behind eye causing pressure, impairing vision temporarily.

2000 · 1 incident

December 2, 2000 IA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Wiltgen Construction Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

HE WAS PRYING AN ENDGATE INTO PLACE WITH BAR, BAR SLIPPED, ENDGATE CAME DOWN ON LEFT RING FINGER.