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Southern Hills Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Southern Hills Rock & Gravel · Surface

Controlled by Lonny G Schramm; Richard W Hiermeier

Custer, Custer County, SD · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 3901351

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2020
Latest incident: Jul 2020

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

110

citations

significant & substantial

$40,717

proposed penalties

$36,577

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
2023 Q1	0	0
2022 Q4	168	2	11904.8
2022 Q3	78	0	0.0
2022 Q2	432	2	4629.6
2022 Q1	38	1	26315.8
2021 Q4	312	0	0.0
2021 Q3	420	0	0.0
2021 Q2	312	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

2020 · 1 incident

July 16, 2020 SD · Metal/Non-Metal FIRE

Southern Hills Rock & Gravel · Accident type, without injuries

Gravel quarry crusher cought fire due to hydraulic line breaking. Soaked running cat motor and ignited. Two workers saw this happen, one ran for extinguishers and other notified supervision which in turn called 911 and had local department on sight within 15 minutes. Crusher and one conveyor could not be saved. No personnel were injured.