Mining Incidents

Dredge Metal/Non-Metal

Great Northwest Inc · Surface
Controlled by A John Minder
Fairbanks, Fairbanks North Star County, AK  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 5001862

Dredge has $30K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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 2007
69
citations
28
significant & substantial
$29,517
proposed penalties
$17,314
paid to date
59% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $12,203 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2007
24
inspections on record
264
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: 264 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Dredge has $30K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$30K
proposed penalties
$17K
current assessed
$17K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
69 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-08-04.
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
2025 Q4 452 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,520 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 2,611 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,229 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 113 0 0 0.0
Show 62 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 1,613 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,218 1 0 450.9
2023 Q1 0 1 0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 4,100 4 1 975.6
2022 Q2 0 0 0
2022 Q1 200 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 175 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,079 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,963 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 3,900 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,200 2 1 625.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q3 3,577 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,795 1 0 357.8
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 110 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,160 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,980 1 0 505.1
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q2 2,116 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 108 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,370 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,140 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 340 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 195 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 3,095 12 5 3877.2
2015 Q2 2,974 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 388 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 556 4 0 7194.2
2014 Q2 747 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 215 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 299 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,131 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 2,446 2 1 817.7
2013 Q1 316 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 397 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,892 2 1 1057.1
2012 Q2 2,143 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 235 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 956 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 4,941 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,399 3 1 1250.5
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 216 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 3,977 2 0 502.9
2010 Q2 2,891 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 160 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 550 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 2,723 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,625 3 3 1846.2
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 928 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 4,332 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,063 13 10 12229.5
2008 Q1 160 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 2,599 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.

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