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Blazek Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Oconto County Highway Department · Surface

Controlled by Oconto County-WI

Oconto Falls, WI, Oconto County, WI · Intermittent

MSHA Mine ID: 4702284

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2000–2011
Latest incident: Oct 2011

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2001

citations

significant & substantial

$6,927

proposed penalties

$6,927

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	135	0	0.0
2025 Q3	333	0	0.0
2025 Q2	145	0	0.0
2025 Q1	0	0
2024 Q4	0	0
2024 Q3	394	1	2538.1
2024 Q2	254	0	0.0
2024 Q1	837	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

2 on file

2011 · 1 incident

October 18, 2011 WI · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE

Oconto County Highway Department · Struck against a moving object

Miner entered area restricted by chain while operation was in progress. Front end loader was being used to feed grizzly of primary crusher. Miner has had all required training and refresher training - used poor judgement. All PPE and guarding was in place.

2000 · 1 incident

April 19, 2000 WI · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Oconto County Highway Department · Struck by falling object

WORKING ON CRUSHER EQUIPMENT. A BAR SLIPPED AND HIT LEFT HAND. A VEIN WAS CUT THAT REQUIRED STITCHES AT A HOSPITAL.