Mining Incidents

Farmers Top Soil Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Eric Charles DeCook
Byron, Olmsted County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103807

Farmers Top Soil 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 2013
27
citations
3
significant & substantial
$3,894
proposed penalties
$3,894
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2013
23
inspections on record
169
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: 169 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Farmers Top Soil 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
27 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-03-13.
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 360 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 580 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 450 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 630 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 500 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 3 0
2023 Q3 580 0 0 0.0
Show 38 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q2 550 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 681 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 0 0 0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q3 262 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 655 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 0 2 0
2020 Q3 550 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 350 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 700 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 567 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 467 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 628 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 708 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 589 6 1 10186.8
2017 Q3 858 1 0 1165.5
2017 Q2 1,259 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 466 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,029 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,855 1 0 539.1
2016 Q2 1,660 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 746 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 695 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 756 6 0 7936.5
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 314 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 664 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 573 1 0 1745.2
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 374 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 684 7 2 10233.9

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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