Mining Incidents

Chieftan 1400: 23 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Midwest Gravel, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Kevin P Romitti
Iron Mountain, MI, Dickinson County, MI  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2003425

Chieftan 1400 has $3K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
23
citations
2
significant & substantial
$2,874
proposed penalties
$2,874
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
33
inspections on record
209
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: 209 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Chieftan 1400 has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
23 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-08-19.
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
4.3%
high negligence or reckless
8.7%
reasonably likely or greater
30.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 95.7% moderate, 4.3% 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: 2025-09-30
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-09-30 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0.15 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. Midwest Gravel, Inc. 2009 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 1
2024 2
2023 1
2022 2
2021 1
2020 1
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
2016 2
2015 1
2014 2
2013 2
2012 2
2011 2
2010 3
2009 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Chieftan 1400 sits in Dickinson County, Michigan, where the Census mining category is 0.8% 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.
Dickinson County, Michigan · Population 25,940
0.8%
Mining share of county employment
$61,882
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 8 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 0 0 0
2025 Q3 234 1 0 4273.5
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 113 4 0 35398.2
Show 61 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 43 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q2 85 3 0 35294.1
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 108 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 208 1 0 4807.7
2022 Q2 30 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q3 140 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 37 4 1 108108.1
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 0 1 0
2020 Q3 624 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 96 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 532 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 315 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 209 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 205 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 231 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 265 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 485 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 580 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 579 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 322 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 520 3 0 5769.2
2016 Q2 246 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 471 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 455 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 0 0 0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 86 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 121 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 165 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 289 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 612 1 0 1634.0
2013 Q2 201 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 97 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 379 2 0 5277.0
2012 Q2 64 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 201 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 258 2 1 7751.9
2011 Q2 168 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 126 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 335 1 0 2985.1
2010 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 98 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 259 0 0 0.0
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.