Mining Incidents

Becker Portable Plant #3 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by MDU Resources Group Inc
Decorah, Woodbury County, IA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1302223

Becker Portable Plant #3 has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
30
citations
9
significant & substantial
$16,080
proposed penalties
$10,303
paid to date
64% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $5,777 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
19
inspections on record
183
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: 183 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Becker Portable Plant #3 has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 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.
$16K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
29 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-05-16.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2010 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,072 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 3,199 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 95 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
Show 34 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q2 1,301 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 5,112 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 4,789 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,402 9 3 2044.5
2007 Q1 790 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 4,042 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 3,655 1 0 273.6
2006 Q2 4,429 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 4,032 2 1 496.0
2005 Q4 3,810 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 3,887 4 0 1029.1
2005 Q2 4,687 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 3,397 8 4 2355.0
2004 Q4 4,236 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 3,655 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 3,483 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,806 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,946 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 3,483 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 688 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,806 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 3,354 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 4,128 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 3,483 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 1,806 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,849 1 1 540.8
2001 Q3 3,806 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 4,515 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 3,483 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 2,838 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,548 5 0 3230.0
2000 Q2 2,580 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 3,483 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.

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