Mining Incidents

Chieftan Power Screen Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Dave L Saehr
Pierz, Morrison County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103365

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2012
Latest incident
Jun 2012
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2011
4
citations
0
significant & substantial
$5,351
proposed penalties
$1,851
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 32 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 158 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 62 1 0 16129.0
2025 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 50 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 153 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 79 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3 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

1 on file

2012 · 1 incident

June 18, 2012 MN · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec POWERED HAULAGE
Saehr Backhoe & Gravel Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Neighbor or landowner has property adjoining mine and was moving a vehicle from his adjoining property when he decided to cut across the mine property and use the pit haul road. They were using a forklift to carry a junk car when the forklift stopped running they began pulling it with a farm tractor in that scenario the two collided which crushed the driver.