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Portable Unit Metal/Non-Metal

Buechel Stone Corp · Surface

Controlled by Shaun Buechel; Dominique Von Wald; Michael Buechel

Arkansas City, Cowley County, KS · Active

MSHA Mine ID: 1401728

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2023
Latest incident: May 2023

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2012

citations

significant & substantial

$3,639

proposed penalties

$3,639

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	1,470	0	0	0.0
2025 Q3	823	0	0	0.0
2025 Q2	573	0	0	0.0
2025 Q1	852	5	0	5868.5
2024 Q4	325	0	0	0.0
2024 Q3	302	0	0	0.0
2024 Q2	700	1	0	1428.6
2024 Q1	1,216	3	1	2467.1

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2023 · 1 incident

May 1, 2023 KS · Metal/Non-Metal stone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Buechel Stone Corp · Fall from machine

Employee was getting out of the cab of the JCB and missed the step. EE didn't grab the hand rail first and then fell backwards landing on EE's lower back and butt.