Mining Incidents

Freedom Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Joelynne N Hanson
Forest Lake, Washington County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103641

Freedom 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
1
Years on record
2021
Latest incident
Jun 2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
14
citations
3
significant & substantial
$1,623
proposed penalties
$1,623
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
25
inspections on record
165
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: 165 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Freedom 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
13 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-06-14.
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 1 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 321 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 397 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 685 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
Show 62 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 359 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 550 2 0 3636.4
2023 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 824 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 337 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,290 1 0 775.2
2022 Q1 422 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,000 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 567 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,459 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 647 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 713 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,109 2 1 1803.4
2017 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,600 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 613 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,041 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,150 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,055 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 599 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 852 1 0 1173.7
2011 Q3 348 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 525 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 591 5 1 8460.2
2010 Q1 705 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 124 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 731 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 561 2 1 3565.1
2008 Q3 1,447 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2021 · 1 incident

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