Mining Incidents

Fry Hill Site Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by NI Sand Holdings LLC
Chetek, Barron County, WI  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4703755

Fry Hill Site has $5K 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
3
Years on record
2016–2017
Latest incident
Nov 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
44
citations
9
significant & substantial
$5,401
proposed penalties
$5,401
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
18
inspections on record
210
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: 210 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Fry Hill Site has $5K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
43 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-03-11.
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
2020 Q2 65 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 890 1 0 1123.6
2019 Q4 1,696 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,980 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 5,843 8 1 1369.2
2019 Q1 5,691 2 0 351.4
2018 Q4 11,959 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 16,220 0 0 0.0
Show 13 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2018 Q2 15,973 5 2 313.0
2018 Q1 7,364 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 10,016 1 0 99.8
2017 Q3 15,140 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 11,142 5 1 448.8
2017 Q1 479 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,808 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 8,007 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 6,936 2 0 288.4
2016 Q1 1,740 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 4,458 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 9,174 19 4 2071.1
2015 Q2 1,890 1 1 529.1
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2017 · 2 incidents

November 21, 2017 WI · Metal/Non-Metal sandfiller (wet), slurry operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Northern Industrial Sand LLC · Fall onto or against objects

The plant operator was carrying an extension ladder by self, when ee turned rounding a de-watering screen ee tripped and fell against the corner of the screen.

November 15, 2017 WI · Metal/Non-Metal utility man, shift tech, service/dump truck operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Northern Industrial Sand LLC · Struck by flying object

EE and another ee were unbolting a HDPE slurry pipe feeding de-watering screen SC-03A. The HDPE pipe has a slip flange on the end for ease of alignment. When the bolts were loosened the heavy HDPE pipe slipped and turned impacting ee in the chest knocking ee down and breaking collar bone.

2016 · 1 incident

May 24, 2016 WI · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Northern Industrial Sand LLC · Struck by flying object

Cat off-road dump truck was stuck at tailings storage area. Dozer operator was trying to free the truck from stuck position by using a strap and shackle to pull the vehicle. Shackle failed causing it to hit the dozer operator in the arm. This caused a fracture in EE's right arm. Operator was transported to the Rice Lake hospital with a non-life threatening injury.

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The full compliance file on Fry Hill Site

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.