Mining Incidents

Gerke Plant #2 Metal/Non-Metal

Gerke Excavating · Surface
Controlled by Richard A Gerke
Tomah, Monroe County, WI  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4703730

Gerke Plant #2 has $1K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2014
12
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,359
proposed penalties
$1,359
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
15
inspections on record
146
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: 146 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Gerke Plant #2 has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
12 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-11-01.
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 447 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 309 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
Show 37 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,581 2 0 1265.0
2023 Q3 977 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,215 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 33 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,007 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 535 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 625 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 262 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,030 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 557 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 711 1 0 1406.5
2021 Q1 67 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 338 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,364 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,855 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 2,064 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 670 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,386 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 613 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 150 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 625 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 650 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 248 1 0 4032.3
2017 Q2 1,136 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,580 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,945 2 0 1028.3
2016 Q3 146 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 380 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 540 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 18 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 942 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,156 6 0 2782.9
2014 Q3 42 0 0 0.0

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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