Mining Incidents

Dakota Quartz Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Jeffrey L Cullum
Custer, Pennington County, SD  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3900670

Dakota Quartz Plant has $39K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 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 2000
132
citations
40
significant & substantial
$39,376
proposed penalties
$38,276
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,100 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
51
inspections on record
679
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: 679 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Dakota Quartz Plant has $39K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 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.
$39K
proposed penalties
$38K
current assessed
$38K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
131 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-12-18.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2013 Q4 40 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 0 0 0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 888 1 0 1126.1
2012 Q3 1,390 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 3,146 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 2,841 2 0 704.0
2011 Q4 3,820 1 0 261.8
Show 47 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2011 Q3 3,410 9 3 2639.3
2011 Q2 2,644 1 0 378.2
2011 Q1 1,981 11 4 5552.8
2010 Q4 2,798 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,972 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,669 10 6 5991.6
2010 Q1 1,383 26 5 18799.7
2009 Q4 1,382 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,395 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,243 5 2 4022.5
2009 Q1 1,485 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,576 9 1 5710.7
2008 Q3 1,767 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,721 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,572 4 0 2544.5
2007 Q4 1,420 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,963 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,813 4 1 2206.3
2007 Q1 1,873 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,709 4 0 2340.6
2006 Q3 2,065 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,552 2 1 1288.7
2006 Q1 1,106 3 2 2712.5
2005 Q4 1,878 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,747 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,144 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,180 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,199 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 973 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,307 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,727 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,064 7 4 3391.5
2003 Q3 974 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 876 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,254 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,433 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,881 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,478 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 1,938 4 2 2064.0
2001 Q4 1,554 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,391 2 1 1437.8
2001 Q2 2,327 7 0 3008.2
2001 Q1 4,828 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 2,333 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,203 3 0 1361.8
2000 Q2 1,739 13 6 7475.6
2000 Q1 2,005 4 2 1995.0

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.

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