Mining Incidents

Grass Lake Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Sultan Mining LLC · Surface
Jackson, Jackson County, MI  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2003305

Grass Lake Pit has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $63 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
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
77
citations
11
significant & substantial
$16,243
proposed penalties
$16,180
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $63 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
42
inspections on record
417
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: 417 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Grass Lake Pit has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $63 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.
$16K
proposed penalties
$16K
current assessed
$16K
paid to date
$63
outstanding
77 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-02-25.
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 1,470 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,327 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,495 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,370 2 0 1459.9
2024 Q4 1,553 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 238 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 464 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,284 2 0 1557.6
Show 75 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 2,285 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,602 5 2 3121.1
2023 Q1 210 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,070 2 0 1869.2
2022 Q3 2,071 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,636 4 0 2445.0
2021 Q4 1,262 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,475 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,929 8 1 4147.2
2021 Q1 245 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 555 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,816 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 230 7 0 30434.8
2020 Q1 94 1 0 10638.3
2019 Q4 2,863 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,178 3 1 944.0
2019 Q2 2,924 4 0 1368.0
2019 Q1 168 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,600 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,761 2 0 531.8
2018 Q2 3,389 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 2,367 3 0 1267.4
2017 Q4 3,109 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 5,116 3 1 586.4
2017 Q2 3,166 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,487 1 0 672.5
2016 Q4 2,079 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 3,223 3 1 930.8
2016 Q2 3,260 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,664 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,666 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 310 1 1 3225.8
2015 Q2 557 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 68 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 464 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,006 4 0 3976.1
2014 Q2 944 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 156 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 624 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 995 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,147 2 0 1743.7
2013 Q1 106 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 887 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,632 5 0 3063.7
2012 Q2 1,344 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 782 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 967 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,847 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,627 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 617 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,478 3 1 2029.8
2010 Q3 1,698 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 994 3 1 3018.1
2010 Q1 153 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 969 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,882 2 2 1062.7
2009 Q2 1,145 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 363 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 609 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 844 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,182 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 579 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 335 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 837 3 0 3584.2
2007 Q2 706 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 317 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 875 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 371 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 706 4 0 5665.7
2005 Q4 665 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 539 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 909 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 664 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,796 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 2,572 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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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.