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Fredonia Facility: 67 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Fredonia, Wilson County, KS  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1401756

Fredonia Facility has $15K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Years on record
2014–2017
Latest incident
Jan 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2013
67
citations
10
significant & substantial
$15,477
proposed penalties
$14,760
paid to date
95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $717 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Wilson County Holdings, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2013
82
inspections on record
1,273
inspection hours
5.3
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.
67 citations across 1,273 inspection hours.
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: 2016-10-13.
On record since 2016.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Fredonia Facility has $15K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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.
$15K
proposed penalties
$15K
current assessed
$15K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
64 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $4K in penalties contested before the Commission, $3K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2017-10-17.
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.
15.6%
significant & substantial
1.6%
high negligence or reckless
15.6%
reasonably likely or greater
35.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.8% low, 90.6% moderate, 1.6% 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.
12 citations taken to the federal commission · 18% of citations on record
  • Settled 12 · 100%
80%
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 5 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
19%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$4K proposed, $3K 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 2016-12-21.
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
CENT 2017-0134 Settlement Miller 2017 $3K → $2K
CENT 2015-0490 Settlement Miller 2015 $898 → $600
CENT 2015-0320 Settlement Miller 2015 $200 → $200
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: 2015-04-14, 11 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
5
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (5)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2015-04-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2015-04-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Drill Helper
2013-06-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Forklift Operator
2013-06-11 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.21 Backhoe Operator
2013-06-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.31 1.35 0.23 Building Repair/Maint.
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.

Fredonia Facility recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2016.

Injury rate, 2016
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.17 and the all-US-mining average was 2.59 cases per 100 workers.
In Kansas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.09 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2016 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2014 * 7.02 7.02 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Wilson County Holdings, LLC 2012 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2017 13
2016 32
2015 39
2014 22
2013 12
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Fredonia Facility sits in Wilson County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
Wilson County, Kansas · Population 8,559
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$57,056
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
2017 Q3 6,760 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 7,922 3 0 378.7
2017 Q1 5,191 1 0 192.6
2016 Q4 7,800 7 2 897.4
2016 Q3 16,053 3 0 186.9
2016 Q2 14,722 3 0 203.8
2016 Q1 21,065 2 0 94.9
2015 Q4 21,199 6 0 283.0
Show 10 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2015 Q3 21,261 1 0 47.0
2015 Q2 22,422 10 2 446.0
2014 Q4 12,552 8 2 637.3
2014 Q3 7,091 1 0 141.0
2014 Q2 3,901 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 4,936 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 4,602 1 0 217.3
2013 Q3 5,562 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 4,506 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 2,922 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

10 on file

2017 · 2 incidents

January 11, 2017 KS · Metal/Non-Metal INUNDATION
Wilson County Holdings, LLC · Accident type, without injuries

Elevated methane reading that exceeded .25% was recorded in the return air shaft.

January 4, 2017 KS · Metal/Non-Metal INUNDATION
Wilson County Holdings, LLC · Accident type, without injuries

Elevated methane reading that exceeded .25% was recorded in the return air shaft.

2016 · 1 incident

September 16, 2016 KS · Metal/Non-Metal INUNDATION
Wilson County Holdings, LLC · Accident type, without injuries

No injury. Elevated methane reading was recorded while tripping drilling bit out of well head assembly

2015 · 3 incidents

March 4, 2015 KS · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wilson County Holdings, LLC · Struck by flying object

Making modifications to hydraulic pump when hydraulic fitting failed injecting worker with hydraulic fluid through left forearm.

2014 · 4 incidents

November 14, 2014 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman NONPOWERED HAULAGE
Wilson County Holdings, LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Pulling Wheel barrow from hoist. Handle broke with sudden release he fell down.

June 9, 2014 KS · Metal/Non-Metal rock driller MACHINERY
Wilson County Holdings, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Two employees were attempting to remove drill steel from shaft jumbo. Employee positioned at top of drill dropped wrap-wrench, contacting injured employee on face. Sutures utilized to close wound.

January 4, 2014 KS · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wilson County Holdings, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was subject to a pre disposed hernia ailment, confirmed through a medical evaluation obtained on 01/22/2014.