Mining Incidents

Baumgartner Quarry: 23 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Joe P Kimmes
Superior, Douglas County, WI  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4702583

Baumgartner Quarry has $2K 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
1
Years on record
1996
Latest incident
Oct 1996
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
23
citations
2
significant & substantial
$2,136
proposed penalties
$2,136
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
15
inspections on record
133
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: 133 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Baumgartner Quarry has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
23 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-09-10.
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.
8.7%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
4.3%
reasonably likely or greater
39.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 13.0% low, 87.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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: 2003-10-21, 22 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
3
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2003-10-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.59 1.05 0.56 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-10-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 0.8 0.33 Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-10-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.73 1.57 0.46 Front-end Loader 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.
Ownership history
  1. Mc Lean Construction Company 1979 to 1989
  2. J Kimmes Construction Inc 1989 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2008 1
2007 2
2006 2
2005 2
2004 2
2003 2
2002 3
2001 3
2000 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Baumgartner Quarry sits in Douglas County, Wisconsin, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Douglas County, Wisconsin · Population 44,197
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$72,579
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
2008 Q1 24 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 770 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,360 7 1 5147.1
2007 Q2 1,310 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 280 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 820 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 970 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,350 0 0 0.0
Show 25 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2006 Q1 340 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,120 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,260 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,210 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 120 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,130 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,800 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 2,170 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 1,410 3 0 2127.7
2003 Q3 1,460 2 1 1369.9
2003 Q2 1,711 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 220 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,421 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,251 6 0 4796.2
2002 Q2 1,441 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 540 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 740 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,261 3 0 2379.1
2001 Q2 642 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 193 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 512 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,522 2 0 793.0
2000 Q2 689 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,440 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1996 · 1 incident

October 9, 1996 WI · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
J Kimmes Construction Inc · Struck against a moving object

EE WAS OPERATING A LOADER. HE TURNED TO LOOK BEHIND HIM WHEN THE LOADER HIT A BUMP & JOLTED HIM.THE JOLT AFFECTED THE SKULL SOCKET & THE FIRST FEW VERTEBRATE OF THE SPLINE CAUSING INFLAMMATION