Mining Incidents

HALVERSON PIT Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Paul Mc Masters
Desmet, Kingsbury County, SD  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3901416

HALVERSON PIT has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 outstanding across 2 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 2001
5
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,519
proposed penalties
$868
paid to date
57% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $651 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
14
inspections on record
71
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: 71 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

HALVERSON PIT has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 outstanding across 2 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$868
paid to date
$151
outstanding
4 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-11.
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 720 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 960 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 390 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 240 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
Show 41 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 100 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 40 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 0 0 0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 80 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 90 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 0 0 0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q3 320 2 0 6250.0
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 90 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 378 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 258 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 83 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 156 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 321 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 162 1 0 6172.8
2018 Q3 162 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 0 0 0
2004 Q3 0 0 0
2004 Q2 0 0 0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2003 Q3 18 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 0 0 0
2002 Q3 0 0 0
2002 Q2 0 0 0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 24 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 41 1 1 24390.2
2001 Q2 10 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 40 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 40 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 40 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 25 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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