Mining Incidents

Eagle River Wash Plant: 11 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Pitlik & Wick, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Brian Pitlik; Scott Wick
Eagle River, WI, Oneida County, WI  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4703330

Eagle River Wash Plant has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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 2003
11
citations
3
significant & substantial
$1,188
proposed penalties
$1,188
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
28
inspections on record
219
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: 219 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Eagle River Wash Plant has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
11 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $100 in penalties contested before the Commission, $100 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-07-18.
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.
27.3%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
27.3%
reasonably likely or greater
54.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 9% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 100%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$100 proposed, $100 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2009-10-08.
Contested penalties
A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
LAKE 2008-351M Settlement Lesnick 2010 $100 → $100
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2016-09-28, 9 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2016-09-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 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. Northern Lakes Concrete, Inc. 2002 to 2014
  2. Pitlik & Wick, Inc. 2014 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 1
2024 1
2023 1
2022 1
2021 1
2020 1
2019 0
2018 1
2017 1
2016 1
2015 1
2014 1
2013 1
2012 1
2011 1
2010 1
2009 1
2008 1
2007 1
2006 1
2005 1
2004 1
2003 1
2002 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Eagle River Wash Plant sits in Oneida County, Wisconsin, 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.
Oneida County, Wisconsin · Population 38,007
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$69,621
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 147 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 96 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 37 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 41 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 192 0 0 0.0
Show 87 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 96 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 145 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 330 1 0 3030.3
2023 Q2 21 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 212 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 319 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 44 1 0 22727.3
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 95 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 161 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 232 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 137 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 296 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 226 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q3 0 0 0
2019 Q2 168 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 65 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 191 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 90 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 189 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 238 1 0 4201.7
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 225 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 317 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 226 1 0 4424.8
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 185 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 314 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 336 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 136 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 372 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 125 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 180 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 191 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 99 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 128 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 319 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 169 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 647 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 435 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 131 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 73 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 265 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 173 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 269 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 332 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 194 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 149 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 231 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 146 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 163 1 0 6135.0
2007 Q3 255 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 211 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 148 1 1 6756.8
2006 Q3 270 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 477 1 0 2096.4
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 170 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 239 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 215 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 227 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 275 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 179 3 2 16759.8
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 166 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 103 1 0 9708.7
2003 Q2 170 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 200 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.