Mining Incidents

Earth #446 Metal/Non-Metal

Earth, Inc. · Surface
Arpin, WI, Wood County, WI  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4703779

Earth #446 has $2K 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 2016
15
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,705
proposed penalties
$1,705
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
19
inspections on record
211
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: 211 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Earth #446 has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
14 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-07-29.
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 827 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 973 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,610 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 197 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 648 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,611 3 0 1862.2
2024 Q2 423 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
Show 31 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 671 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,372 1 0 728.9
2023 Q2 1,031 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 719 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 658 1 0 1519.8
2022 Q2 540 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 388 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 260 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 778 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 696 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,487 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 944 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,124 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,005 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,245 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 715 2 0 2797.2
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 963 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,405 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 985 1 0 1015.2
2018 Q1 1,211 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 777 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,226 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,125 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 691 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,559 1 0 641.4
2016 Q3 457 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 959 5 1 5213.8

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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The full compliance file on Earth #446

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.