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Portable Plant No. 1 Metal/Non-Metal

Cain Creek Enterprises Inc · Surface

Controlled by Richard C Schumitsch

Merrill, Lincoln County, WI · Intermittent

MSHA Mine ID: 4702823

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2000
Latest incident: Sep 2000

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2001

citations

significant & substantial

$7,776

proposed penalties

$6,967

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	631	0	0.0
2025 Q3	702	0	0.0
2025 Q2	1,395	3	2150.5
2025 Q1	259	0	0.0
2024 Q4	931	0	0.0
2024 Q3	791	8	10113.8
2024 Q2	1,332	0	0.0
2024 Q1	146	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

2000 · 1 incident

September 20, 2000 WI · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Cain Creek Enterprises Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS PREPARING THE PARKER PRIMARY PLANT TO BE MOVED TO ANOTHER LOCATION AND BENT OVER TO LIFT A TIMEBER (BLOCKING). HE EXPERIENCED PAIN AND WENT TO THE GROUND IN PAIN. HE HAS HAD BAC K RELATED INJURIES IN THE PAST AND IT JUST SNAPPED. DR TOLD HIM HE HAS A TORN MUSCLE ON LEFT SIDE OF HIS BACK.