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Gowan Pit: 11 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Emerado, Grand Forks County, ND  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3201080

Gowan Pit has $4K 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
0
Years on record
—
Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
11
citations
2
significant & substantial
$3,651
proposed penalties
$3,651
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Gowan Construction, Inc.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2021
7
inspections on record
162
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: 162 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘ A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2021-04-27.
On record since 2021.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Gowan Pit has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
10 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-06-25.
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.
20.0%
significant & substantial
10.0%
high negligence or reckless
20.0%
reasonably likely or greater
80.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 50.0% low, 40.0% moderate, 10.0% 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: 2024-06-27
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
5
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (5)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-06-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-06-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-06-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.95 1.45 0.66 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-06-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.36 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2021-06-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer 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.
Ownership history
  1. Gowan Construction, Inc. 2021 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 4
2025 5
2024 3
2023 2
2022 2
2021 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Gowan Pit sits in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Grand Forks County, North Dakota · Population 72,764
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$68,450
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 2,811 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 175 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 2,110 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,438 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,115 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 136 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,312 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,394 0 0 0.0
Show 14 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 119 1 0 8403.4
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 1,117 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,887 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,236 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 696 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 336 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 0 0 0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 852 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,731 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,000 10 2 10000.0
2021 Q1 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.