Mining Incidents

CONE PLANT: 41 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Lawrence L Rogge
GHENT, Lyon County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103957

CONE PLANT has $10K 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 2019
41
citations
4
significant & substantial
$10,089
proposed penalties
$10,089
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
13
inspections on record
164
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: 164 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

CONE PLANT has $10K 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
40 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-01.
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.
9.8%
significant & substantial
29.3%
high negligence or reckless
9.8%
reasonably likely or greater
43.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 2.4% low, 68.3% moderate, 29.3% 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: 2025-11-04
4
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-11-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2025-11-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2020-09-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-09-02 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 1.02 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. ROGGE EXCAVATING INC. 2019 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 1
2021 2
2020 1
2019 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

CONE PLANT sits in Lyon County, Minnesota, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Lyon County, Minnesota · Population 25,498
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$72,761
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 2,061 1 0 485.2
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 596 3 0 5033.6
2025 Q3 740 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 66 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 288 5 0 17361.1
Show 20 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 128 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 348 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 700 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 573 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 641 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 220 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 823 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 320 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 32 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 249 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 801 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 708 9 1 12711.9
2020 Q2 920 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 270 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 607 18 2 29654.0

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.