#3377 El Jay Wash Plant has $360 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2009
Latest incident
Sep 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
4
citations
0
significant & substantial
$360
proposed penalties
$360
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
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: 83 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
#3377 El Jay Wash Plant has $360 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$360
proposed penalties
$360
current assessed
$360
paid to date
$0
outstanding
4 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $100 in penalties contested before the Commission, $100 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-06-17.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘShares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘContesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
1citations taken to the federal commission · 25% of citations on record
Stood as issued
1 · 100%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$100 proposed, $100 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2008-06-24.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Health sampling
ⓘA sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.
Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘMany samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2005-04-20, 21 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2005-04-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-04-20
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.16
0.66
0.24
Washer Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2009
2
2008
3
2007
3
2006
2
2005
2
2004
3
2003
2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
#3377 El Jay Wash Plant sits in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, where the Census mining category is 0.1% of county employment.
Local economic context
ⓘCounty figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Blue Earth County, Minnesota · Population 69,386
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$72,623
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
2009 Q4
309
0
0
0.0
2009 Q3
533
0
0
0.0
2009 Q2
348
2
0
5747.1
2009 Q1
1
0
0
0.0
2008 Q4
625
0
0
0.0
2008 Q3
1,386
0
0
0.0
2008 Q2
1,002
1
0
998.0
2008 Q1
1
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2007 Q4
516
0
0
0.0
2007 Q3
1,212
0
0
0.0
2007 Q2
629
0
0
0.0
2007 Q1
1
0
0
0.0
2006 Q4
541
1
0
1848.4
2006 Q3
844
0
0
0.0
2006 Q2
713
0
0
0.0
2006 Q1
1
0
0
0.0
2005 Q4
481
0
0
0.0
2005 Q3
1,717
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
386
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
1
0
0
0.0
2004 Q4
441
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
1,301
0
0
0.0
2004 Q2
991
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
1
0
0
0.0
2003 Q4
401
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
716
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2009 · 1 incident
September 14, 2009MN · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)