Mining Incidents

El Dorado Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by James C Soukup
Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, SD  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3901486

El Dorado Pit has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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 2004
32
citations
3
significant & substantial
$4,043
proposed penalties
$4,043
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
34
inspections on record
415
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: 415 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

El Dorado Pit has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
32 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-30.
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 801 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,023 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,027 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 183 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 998 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,737 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,931 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 435 0 0 0.0
Show 81 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,115 1 0 896.9
2023 Q3 1,616 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,157 3 0 2592.9
2023 Q1 507 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 906 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,085 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,051 2 0 1902.9
2022 Q1 472 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 738 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 920 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,190 1 0 840.3
2021 Q1 615 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,636 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 705 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 977 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 547 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 808 1 1 1237.6
2019 Q3 906 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,105 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 85 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 856 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,070 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,058 1 0 945.2
2018 Q1 659 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 811 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,001 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 911 1 0 1097.7
2017 Q1 482 1 0 2074.7
2016 Q4 615 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 352 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,229 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 220 4 0 18181.8
2015 Q4 660 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 587 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,032 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 796 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 274 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 209 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 454 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 28 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 784 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 530 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,042 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 489 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 958 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 900 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 997 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 172 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 738 2 0 2710.0
2011 Q3 727 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 474 1 0 2109.7
2011 Q1 105 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,083 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,032 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 613 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 189 3 0 15873.0
2009 Q4 832 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,184 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 791 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 24 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 637 3 0 4709.6
2008 Q3 1,393 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,124 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 106 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,405 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,111 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,151 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 355 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,550 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 965 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,413 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 184 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 848 1 0 1179.2
2005 Q3 1,347 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,566 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 447 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 808 1 0 1237.6
2004 Q3 1,251 5 2 3996.8
2004 Q2 787 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 289 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 643 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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The full compliance file on El Dorado Pit

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.