Mining Incidents

Griffin Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Greg Griffin
Chatfield, Olmsted County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103683

Griffin Pit has $3K 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
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2011
11
citations
2
significant & substantial
$2,870
proposed penalties
$2,870
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
25
inspections on record
127
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: 127 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Griffin Pit has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
11 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-04.
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 343 1 0 2915.5
2025 Q3 375 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 306 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
2024 Q2 33 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 103 0 0 0.0
Show 50 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 189 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 59 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 59 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 170 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 577 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 66 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 180 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 347 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 785 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 47 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 53 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 36 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 344 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 77 1 0 12987.0
2020 Q2 496 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 65 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 141 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 115 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 94 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 339 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 107 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 367 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 371 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 50 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 86 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 306 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 64 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 217 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 701 1 1 1426.5
2016 Q2 507 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 76 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 570 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,002 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 443 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 41 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 411 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 746 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 246 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 167 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 102 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 104 1 0 9615.4
2013 Q2 421 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 196 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 220 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 50 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 59 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 640 1 0 1562.5
2011 Q4 115 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 247 6 1 24291.5

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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The full compliance file on Griffin Pit

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.