Mining Incidents
Search Operators Mines Alerts Research Controllers Fatalgrams About
English Español
← Back to search

Dry Plant: 44 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

New Auburn, Barron County, WI  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4703620

Dry Plant has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $129 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

Watch this mine

Email me when a new MSHA incident is filed at Dry Plant.

Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2017–2019
Latest incident
Aug 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2012
44
citations
8
significant & substantial
$5,959
proposed penalties
$5,830
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $129 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Superior Silica Sands LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
26
inspections on record
337
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: 337 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Dry Plant has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $129 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$129
outstanding
44 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-11-06.
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.
18.2%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
18.2%
reasonably likely or greater
34.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 56.8% low, 43.2% 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: 2017-12-12, 8 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
22
samples
12
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz12
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg9
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (22)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2017-12-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2017-12-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 0.51 0.65 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2017-12-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 0.8 0.29 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2017-12-12 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2017-01-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.43 0.46 0.93 Sand Filler (Dry)
2017-01-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.57 0.72 0.79 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-12-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.51 0.33 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-12-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.45 0.31 Track Man/Gang
2015-12-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2015-12-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 0.45 0.40 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2015-09-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 1.01 0.12 Lab Technician
2015-09-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2015-09-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.27 0.57 0.47 Utility Man
2015-09-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-03-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Lab Technician
2014-03-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-03-12 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.31 0.63 0.49 Utility Man
2013-08-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2013-08-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Lab Technician
2012-02-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-02-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.31 1.15 0.27 Laborer, Bullgang
2012-02-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.34 0.98 0.35 Truck Loader
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.

Dry Plant recorded 8.70 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2019.

Injury rate, 2019
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
8.70
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.94 and the all-US-mining average was 2.32 cases per 100 workers.
In Wisconsin, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.52 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2019 * 8.70 0.00 0.000
2018 * 2.70 2.70 0.000
2017 * 2.59 2.59 0.000
2016 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2015 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2014 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2013 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2012 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Superior Silica Sands LLC 2011 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2022 0
2021 0
2020 6
2019 12
2018 33
2017 36
2016 29
2015 24
2014 33
2013 24
2012 30
2011 24
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Dry Plant sits in Barron County, Wisconsin, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
Barron County, Wisconsin · Population 46,741
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$64,619
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
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q3 0 0 0
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 160 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 4,196 0 0 0.0
Show 35 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2020 Q1 1,057 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 975 1 0 1025.6
2019 Q3 1,606 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 9,033 1 0 110.7
2019 Q1 11,378 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 18,475 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 15,784 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 20,235 1 0 49.4
2018 Q1 19,451 2 1 102.8
2017 Q4 19,381 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 20,013 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 20,892 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 17,051 1 1 58.6
2016 Q4 10,986 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,837 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 7,601 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 8,920 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 5,801 3 1 517.2
2015 Q3 5,820 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 16,740 2 1 119.5
2015 Q1 20,300 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 20,166 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 17,276 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 19,495 6 0 307.8
2014 Q1 27,141 2 0 73.7
2013 Q4 20,287 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 18,687 6 0 321.1
2013 Q2 685 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 17,116 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 15,648 4 1 255.6
2012 Q3 16,522 2 0 121.1
2012 Q2 14,469 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 14,622 5 1 342.0
2011 Q4 11,830 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 2,640 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2019 · 1 incident

August 23, 2019 WI · Metal/Non-Metal fireman - locomotive, railroad clam operator, timekeeper, yard engine operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Superior Silica Sands LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was repairing a loadout spout. While moving the spout the employee's finger got pinched between work platform and the bottom of the spout causing a cut on left hand ring finger that required 3 stitches.

2018 · 1 incident

October 12, 2018 WI · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Superior Silica Sands LLC · Struck by falling object

While doing maintenance on the dryer a chain fall broke loose and struck a worker in the safety glasses. The impact caused safety glasses to cut cheek and nose requiring stitches

2017 · 1 incident

March 13, 2017 WI · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Superior Silica Sands LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

While diver was outside the truck cleaning the mud flaps, EE noticed a turnbuckle stuck in the tail gate. EE tried to free the turnbuckle by lifting the tail gate with left hand. When the turnbuckle came free the gate shut smashing 4 fingers on the left hand.