Mining Incidents

Cedar Rapids Crusher: 19 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Balgaard Services · Surface
Controlled by Harlan J. Balgaard
Battle Lake, Grant County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103679

Cedar Rapids Crusher has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

Watch this mine

Email me when a new MSHA incident is filed at Cedar Rapids Crusher.

Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
19
citations
5
significant & substantial
$2,219
proposed penalties
$2,219
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
22
inspections on record
166
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: 166 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Cedar Rapids Crusher 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
19 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-08.
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.
26.3%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
26.3%
reasonably likely or greater
57.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 36.8% low, 63.2% 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: 2025-07-09
2
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-07-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-07-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
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. Balgaard Services 2009 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 1
2024 1
2023 1
2022 1
2021 1
2020 1
2019 1
2018 1
2017 1
2016 1
2015 1
2014 1
2013 1
2012 1
2011 1
2010 1
2009 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Cedar Rapids Crusher sits in Grant County, Minnesota, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Grant County, Minnesota · Population 6,108
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$72,957
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
2026 Q2 119 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 26 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 225 2 1 8888.9
2025 Q2 111 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 24 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 222 0 0 0.0
Show 61 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 117 1 0 8547.0
2024 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 31 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 213 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 112 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 25 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 219 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 119 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 21 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 205 1 0 4878.0
2021 Q2 132 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 41 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 237 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 137 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 43 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 225 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 135 2 0 14814.8
2019 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 55 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 223 1 0 4484.3
2018 Q2 127 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 60 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 228 1 0 4386.0
2017 Q2 130 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 50 1 0 20000.0
2016 Q3 227 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 122 1 0 8196.7
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 55 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 234 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 137 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 21 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 241 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 145 1 0 6896.6
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 11 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 156 1 0 6410.3
2013 Q2 114 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q3 201 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 174 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 46 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 350 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 132 1 1 7575.8
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 750 5 3 6666.7
2010 Q2 200 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 20 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 360 1 0 2777.8
2009 Q2 120 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.