Mining Incidents

Northmet Metal/Non-Metal

Hoyt Lakes, St Louis County, MN  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2103658

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
8
Years on record
2009–2025
Latest incident
Sep 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2013
28
citations
4
significant & substantial
$8,495
proposed penalties
$7,750
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 21,152 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 19,406 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 25,912 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 25,416 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 20,728 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 27,808 1 0 36.0
2024 Q2 23,264 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 23,175 2 0 86.3
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

8 on file

2025 · 1 incident

September 18, 2025 MN · Metal/Non-Metal lab technician OTHER
NewRange Copper Nickel, LLC · Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Worker was mounting the MuddOx and felt a back spasm when sitting down. Location was lower left backpain. Initial spasm was very painful and got a little better after walking for a little while.

2024 · 1 incident

October 1, 2024 MN · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
NewRange Copper Nickel, LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Battery was in machine, putting ballast boxes back in. Picked up Box and move into position, felt sharp pain in lower back

2019 · 1 incident

May 8, 2019 MN · Metal/Non-Metal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
NewRange Copper Nickel, LLC · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was walking while performing geologic mapping in a wooded area west of the Concentrator. While walking ee tripped over some brush and downed branches, fell onto a rock, striking left knee, which resulted in a laceration that required sutures.

2017 · 2 incidents

September 25, 2017 MN · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
NewRange Copper Nickel, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was assisting in repairs to 2 1/2" overhead piping with a 24" pipe wrench. Employee reported soreness in left shoulder and neck after reaching for a short length of pipe, that was being used for leverage on the pipe wrench, when the short length of pipe slipped off the wrench handle. The accident occurred on 9/12/2017 and the employee was seen by the doctor on 9/25/17.

July 26, 2017 MN · Metal/Non-Metal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
NewRange Copper Nickel, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Injured was assisting in removing a pipe flange bolt. Injured reached for a combination wrench that was falling off the bolt head to put it back on the head. As EE reached for the wrench the co-worker loosened the nut with a ratchet wrench. The combination wrench reacted to the movement of the ratchet and injured's right middle finger was pinched between the pipe and the wrench.

2016 · 1 incident

August 31, 2016 MN · Metal/Non-Metal building repair man, maintenance MACHINERY
NewRange Copper Nickel, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Contract employee was using a handheld electric grinder to cut bolts off of a plastic pipe flange. The pipe was positioned on the ground at the operation's tailings basin. The grinding wheel contacted the employee's left wrist causing a laceration the required medical treatment.

2012 · 1 incident

October 24, 2012 MN · Metal/Non-Metal FIRE
NewRange Copper Nickel, LLC · Accident type, without injuries

Fire in the bus bar raceway above the "West 10x8 Slurry Pump..." cabinet in the MCC in the unoccupied, idle Fine Crusher. Spare parts that were stored nearby were ignited. The raceway, bus bars, bus bar supports and ten ft. of cable in the E11 tunnel were damaged. The cause of the fire is thought to be an animal contacting the bus bars or power cable failure.

2009 · 1 incident

July 10, 2009 MN · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
NewRange Copper Nickel, LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was descending stairs from the second floor to the first floor, in the Administration Office Building, stumbled at the landing that was located halfway between the second and first floors. Employee sustained a metatarsal fracture of the fifth (small) toe on the right foot.