G-P Fort Dodge Quarry 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
2022–2025
Latest incident
Sep 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
39
citations
1
significant & substantial
$5,317
proposed penalties
$5,317
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
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: 273 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
G-P Fort Dodge Quarry 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
39 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-28.
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.
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: 2025-09-30
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz3
Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (7)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-09-30
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2025-09-30
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
Crusher Oper/Worker
2023-09-05
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.92
10
0.09
Mechanic
2023-09-05
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2019-01-28
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.71
10
0.07
Bulldozer Operator
2019-01-28
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
0.51
10
0.05
Front-end Loader Operator
2019-01-28
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.24
10
0.02
Cont. Miner 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.
G-P Fort Dodge Quarry recorded 4.05 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ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.
4.05
total case rate
4.05
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Iowa, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.72 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
2025 *
4.05
4.05
0.000
2024 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
4.70
4.70
0.000
2022 *
5.17
5.17
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2018 *
0.00
0.00
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
20
2025
22
2024
21
2023
20
2022
17
2021
14
2020
13
2019
12
2018
12
2017
6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
G-P Fort Dodge Quarry sits in Webster County, Iowa, where the Census mining category is 0.6% 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.
Webster County, Iowa · Population 36,848
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$68,054
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
10,756
4
0
371.9
2026 Q1
11,906
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
11,995
2
0
166.7
2025 Q3
13,296
1
0
75.2
2025 Q2
12,218
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
11,927
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
10,222
3
0
293.5
2024 Q3
12,369
4
0
323.4
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
11,767
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
9,586
1
0
104.3
2023 Q4
11,398
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
10,683
1
0
93.6
2023 Q2
10,499
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
9,951
3
0
301.5
2022 Q4
10,824
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
9,644
2
0
207.4
2022 Q2
9,620
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
8,563
0
0
0.0
2021 Q4
7,832
1
0
127.7
2021 Q3
7,364
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
7,674
0
0
0.0
2021 Q1
6,615
3
0
453.5
2020 Q4
6,420
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
6,628
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
7,809
0
0
0.0
2020 Q1
6,697
1
0
149.3
2019 Q4
6,062
0
0
0.0
2019 Q3
6,745
0
0
0.0
2019 Q2
6,072
3
1
494.1
2019 Q1
6,773
0
0
0.0
2018 Q4
12,323
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
7,011
4
0
570.5
2018 Q2
5,779
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
2,680
2
0
746.3
2017 Q4
3,892
0
0
0.0
2017 Q3
3,359
0
0
0.0
2017 Q2
2,259
3
0
1328.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
3 on file
2025 · 1 incident
September 16, 2025IA · Metal/Non-Metalwater truck operatorPOWERED HAULAGE
Operator was watering travel route from stripping area to spoil area. Operator made a pass up the hill and turned around to head back when they crossed into the area they wet prior. The truck began to slide, operator overcorrected turning the truck onto its side. When the truck overturned the operator hit their head against the truck ROPS. Operator did have seatbelt on.
2023 · 1 incident
November 7, 2023IA · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Mine operator arrived at site riding with a co-worker, operator got out of personal vehicle in employee parking and walked to the site Haul truck parking location wearing slides (sandals) not approved PPE, before clocking in, as the employee went over the berm their left leg got stuck in the mud, the operator tripped backwards spraining their Left Knee.
2022 · 1 incident
April 6, 2022IA · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Operator was walking in a muddy area when boot got stuck in mud, EE attempted to pull boot out of mud, the force of the pulling motion caused them to trip backwards and caused a small stress fracture on top of foot, leading to 1 day lost time for swelling and requiring a brace.
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