Mining Incidents

Crush/Screen/Wash Operations in Pit: 18 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Red Top Construction LLC · Surface
Controlled by Ben Dickinson
Aurora, St Louis County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103802

Crush/Screen/Wash Operations in Pit 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 2017
18
citations
4
significant & substantial
$2,933
proposed penalties
$2,933
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2013
19
inspections on record
124
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: 124 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Crush/Screen/Wash Operations in Pit 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
18 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-05.
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.
22.2%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
22.2%
reasonably likely or greater
72.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 27.8% low, 72.2% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Red Top Construction LLC 2013 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 3
2024 3
2023 4
2022 3
2021 2
2020 2
2019 3
2018 3
2017 3
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Crush/Screen/Wash Operations in Pit sits in St. Louis County, Minnesota, where the Census mining category is 2.3% 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.
St. Louis County, Minnesota · Population 200,056
2.3%
Mining share of county employment
$69,455
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 317 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 220 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 570 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 757 1 0 1321.0
2025 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 858 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 862 0 0 0.0
Show 45 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 2,562 2 0 780.6
2024 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 552 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 330 1 0 3030.3
2023 Q2 1,207 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 156 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 110 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 120 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 90 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 20 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 90 3 2 33333.3
2021 Q2 10 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 30 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 30 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 40 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 30 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 35 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 20 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 132 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 50 6 0 120000.0
2018 Q2 164 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 130 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 210 5 2 23809.5
2017 Q2 30 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 40 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 10 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 10 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 90 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 80 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 40 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 50 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 62 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 12 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 10 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 30 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 60 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.