Mining Incidents

Commandor Plant: 15 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Lindsey R Falk
St. Ansgar, Mitchell County, IA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1302101

Commandor Plant has $1K 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 2001
15
citations
3
significant & substantial
$1,091
proposed penalties
$1,091
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
22
inspections on record
176
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: 176 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Commandor Plant has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
15 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-08-20.
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.
20.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
20.0%
reasonably likely or greater
73.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 26.7% low, 73.3% 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: 2010-03-31, 16 years ago
11%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
14
samples
9
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz21 over
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz5
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg5
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (14)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2001-08-07 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 10.26 10 1.03 Crusher Oper/Worker
2010-03-31 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 3.09 10 0.31 Crusher Oper/Worker
2010-03-31 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.39 10 0.04 Front-end Loader Operator
2008-08-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2008-08-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 1.69 0.11 Crusher Oper/Worker
2008-08-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2004-07-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2004-07-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2004-07-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 1.6 0.13 Laborer, Bullgang
2004-07-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 1.49 0.09 Laborer, Bullgang
2001-08-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dragline Operator
2001-08-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 0.95 0.22 Truck Driver
2001-08-07 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 2.82 10 0.28 Truck Driver
2001-08-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 1.13 0.16 Truck Driver
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. L R Falk Construction Company 1985 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2015 0
2014 2
2013 1
2012 1
2011 1
2010 3
2009 1
2008 3
2007 2
2006 3
2005 3
2004 5
2003 7
2002 7
2001 9
2000 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Commandor Plant sits in Mitchell County, Iowa, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
Mitchell County, Iowa · Population 10,548
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$68,704
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
2015 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 39 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 155 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 451 0 0 0.0
Show 55 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2013 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 0 0 0
2013 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 5 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 33 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 338 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 108 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 24 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 141 3 0 21276.6
2008 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 101 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 191 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 386 1 1 2590.7
2006 Q2 20 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1 1 0 1000000.0
2005 Q4 130 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 824 2 1 2427.2
2005 Q2 271 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 275 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,384 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 65 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 764 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,499 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,266 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 21 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 19 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 545 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 689 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 189 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 614 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 4,410 8 1 1814.1
2001 Q2 271 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 235 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 210 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 144 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 455 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,027 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.