F & G has $13K 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
1
Years on record
2017
Latest incident
May 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
61
citations
14
significant & substantial
$13,236
proposed penalties
$10,974
paid to date
83% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,262 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
29
inspections on record
382
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: 382 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘA Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2015-03-31.
On record since 2015.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
F & G has $13K 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.
$13K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
60 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $4K in penalties contested before the Commission, $2K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-04.
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.
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.
6citations taken to the federal commission · 10% of citations on record
Settled
6 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘCounts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 3 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
52%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$4K proposed, $2K 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 2015-10-14.
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.
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: 2023-11-15
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
6
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg4
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (6)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2023-11-15
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
0.73
0.21
Front-end Loader Operator
2023-11-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2023-11-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2023-11-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2018-09-25
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.23
Crusher Oper/Worker
2017-07-11
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
4
2025
4
2024
5
2023
5
2022
4
2021
0
2020
3
2019
3
2018
4
2017
3
2016
2
2015
3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
F & G sits in McKenzie County, North Dakota, where the Census mining category is 16.5% 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.
McKenzie County, North Dakota · Population 14,280
16.5%
Mining share of county employment
$88,289
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
1,625
5
1
3076.9
2026 Q1
1,728
1
1
578.7
2025 Q4
2,499
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
2,281
1
0
438.4
2025 Q2
2,716
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
2,877
2
0
695.2
2024 Q4
3,234
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
3,010
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
3,052
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
2,672
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
2,818
4
0
1419.4
2023 Q3
2,847
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
2,080
11
5
5288.5
2023 Q1
1,237
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
1,409
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
2,126
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
1,720
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
0
0
0
2021 Q2
0
0
0
2021 Q1
320
0
0
0.0
2020 Q4
534
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
576
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
1,920
0
0
0.0
2020 Q1
480
2
0
4166.7
2019 Q4
220
2
0
9090.9
2019 Q3
1,280
0
0
0.0
2019 Q2
1,400
6
1
4285.7
2019 Q1
480
1
0
2083.3
2018 Q4
1,550
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
1,625
0
0
0.0
2018 Q2
2,840
5
0
1760.6
2018 Q1
1,250
0
0
0.0
2017 Q4
1,620
0
0
0.0
2017 Q3
1,538
7
0
4551.4
2017 Q2
1,920
0
0
0.0
2017 Q1
1,440
3
3
2083.3
2016 Q4
168
0
0
0.0
2016 Q3
892
2
0
2242.2
2016 Q2
688
0
0
0.0
2016 Q1
1,144
0
0
0.0
2015 Q4
1,864
0
0
0.0
2015 Q3
884
1
0
1131.2
2015 Q2
1,000
1
0
1000.0
2015 Q1
150
7
3
46666.7
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2017 · 1 incident
May 2, 2017ND · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Operator went to start front end loader at start of shift to warm machine up. When they started machine they got out of the machine and went to close the door of the machine and smashed thier little finger in the door jam of the machine.