Mining Incidents

271 Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Michaelson Inc · Surface
Controlled by Michael R Sjoblom
Ringsted, Emmet County, IA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1302462

271 Plant has $543 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
4
citations
0
significant & substantial
$543
proposed penalties
$543
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
12
inspections on record
58
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 58 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

271 Plant has $543 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$543
proposed penalties
$543
current assessed
$543
paid to date
$0
outstanding
4 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2018-08-21.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 14 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 27 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 53 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 53 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 151 0 0 0.0
Show 25 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q2 130 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 69 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 374 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 32 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 48 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 31 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 129 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 68 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 3 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 333 3 0 9009.0
2018 Q2 216 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 3 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 3 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 77 1 0 12987.0
2017 Q2 6 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.

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The full compliance file on 271 Plant

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.