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Gerke Plant #6: 9 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Richard A Gerke
Tomah, Monroe County, WI  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4703711

Gerke Plant #6 has $1K 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
1
Years on record
2014
Latest incident
May 2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2014
9
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,130
proposed penalties
$1,130
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Gerke Excavating, Inc.'s full MSHA compliance history →
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 #6 has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
9 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-03-25.
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.
11.1%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
11.1%
reasonably likely or greater
33.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 33.3% low, 66.7% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2020-11-05, 5 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
1
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2020-11-05 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.37 10 0.04 Cleanup Man
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.
Ownership history
  1. Gerke Excavating, Inc. 2014 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 7
2025 4
2024 5
2023 4
2022 4
2021 4
2020 2
2019 3
2018 6
2017 4
2016 5
2015 4
2014 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Gerke Plant #6 sits in Monroe County, Wisconsin, where the Census mining category is 1.6% 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.
Monroe County, Wisconsin · Population 46,169
1.6%
Mining share of county employment
$68,213
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 1,068 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 142 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 989 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 755 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,938 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,036 1 0 965.3
2024 Q4 1,827 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 47 0 0 0.0
Show 41 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 277 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 987 2 0 2026.3
2023 Q4 1,144 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 208 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 603 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 694 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,667 1 1 599.9
2022 Q3 331 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 537 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 665 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,278 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 738 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,251 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,240 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 406 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 990 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 450 1 0 2222.2
2019 Q3 0 0 0
2019 Q2 745 1 0 1342.3
2019 Q1 1,339 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,529 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,137 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,499 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 703 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,609 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 945 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,664 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 335 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,260 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 582 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,319 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 396 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 759 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,270 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 838 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,005 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 533 1 0 1876.2
2014 Q3 1,543 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 381 2 0 5249.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2014 · 1 incident

May 7, 2014 WI · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Gerke Excavating, Inc. · Over-exertion in lifting objects

while two employees were lifting conveyor belting onto back of flatbed truck, one employee injured lower back.