Mining Incidents

W & R Pit & Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Nebco Inc
Alexandria, Thayer County, NE  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2500976

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
2000–2008
Latest incident
Oct 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
39
citations
12
significant & substantial
$5,553
proposed penalties
$5,553
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 2,806 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,851 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,003 2 0 666.0
2025 Q1 90 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,276 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,314 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,273 1 0 439.9
2024 Q1 191 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

5 on file

2008 · 2 incidents

October 20, 2008 NE · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Consolidated Sand & Gravel · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Walking near the booster pump and stepped into a depression or uneven area of the ground. EE went to a chiropractor on 10/31/08.

June 3, 2008 NE · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Consolidated Sand & Gravel · Struck against stationary object

Miner was tightening packing gland on cyclone pump. Wrench slipped oof of nut, hand struck a hose clamp. Miner was wearing gloves, however, the clamp cut through glove and lacerated right thumb. Required 3 stitches, tetanus vaccination and Rx anitiodic.

2007 · 1 incident

September 26, 2007 NE · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Consolidated Sand & Gravel · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

2 men working on a dredge sleeve, in process of bolting up the sleeve to pipeline the dredge sleeve fell and EE grabbed one end of it to keep it from going into the lake. The suddent jolt caused an acute strain of his left shoulder

2001 · 1 incident

October 8, 2001 NE · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Consolidated Sand & Gravel · Fall onto or against objects

MINER WAS TIGHTENING A CLAMP ON A DREDGE SLEEVE. THE CLAMP BROKE, CAUSING MINER TO LOOSE BALANCE AND FALL AGAINST A BRACE, RESULTING IN MINER'S BUTT STRIKING AGAINST THE BRACE, RESULTING IN FR ACTURED TAILBONE.

2000 · 1 incident

October 12, 2000 NE · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand POWERED HAULAGE
Consolidated Sand & Gravel · Contact with hot objects or substances

EMPLOYEE BURNED LEFT FOREARM ON MUFFLER ON A SMALL BRIGGS & STRATTON MOTOR. WHILE OPERATING A WORK BOAT.