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Empire Rock Metal/Non-Metal

Fischer Mining LLC · Surface

Controlled by Peter Fischer

Apple Valley, Dakota County, MN · Intermittent

MSHA Mine ID: 2103940

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2021
Latest incident: Mar 2021

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2020

citations

significant & substantial

$403

proposed penalties

$403

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	Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4	3,842	0	0.0
2025 Q3	5,723	0	0.0
2025 Q2	5,021	0	0.0
2025 Q1	2,243	0	0.0
2024 Q4	3,859	1	259.1
2024 Q3	5,234	0	0.0
2024 Q2	5,571	0	0.0
2024 Q1	1,695	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

2021 · 1 incident

March 9, 2021 MN · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Fischer Mining LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Conditions were dry and non-slippery. Conditions did not contribute to the incident itself. Miner was setting down a heavy rubber liner, when it bounced up, and metal edge on liner caught miner's finger. About 7 stitches, and miner was back at work.