Mining Incidents

JNS Metal/Non-Metal

Great Bend, Barton County, KS  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1400540

JNS has $34K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 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
113
citations
34
significant & substantial
$34,131
proposed penalties
$30,079
paid to date
88% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,052 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
60
inspections on record
629
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: 629 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

JNS has $34K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 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.
$34K
proposed penalties
$30K
current assessed
$30K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
109 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-01-07.
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 2,900 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,550 2 1 784.3
2025 Q2 2,101 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,275 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,559 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,043 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,126 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,828 0 0 0.0
Show 96 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,962 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,000 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,135 1 0 468.4
2023 Q1 2,053 1 0 487.1
2022 Q4 2,160 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,426 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,378 2 0 841.0
2022 Q1 1,958 3 0 1532.2
2021 Q4 2,171 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,351 4 1 1701.4
2021 Q2 2,244 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,840 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,099 2 0 952.8
2020 Q3 1,972 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,941 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,001 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,838 3 1 1632.2
2019 Q3 1,103 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,856 7 2 3771.6
2019 Q1 1,320 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,721 3 1 1743.2
2018 Q3 1,636 8 4 4890.0
2018 Q2 1,871 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,343 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,901 6 1 3156.2
2017 Q3 1,504 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,641 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,599 2 0 1250.8
2016 Q4 1,426 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 879 2 0 2275.3
2016 Q2 880 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 2,046 4 0 1955.0
2015 Q4 2,142 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,058 1 0 485.9
2015 Q2 2,405 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 2,253 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,358 1 1 424.1
2014 Q3 1,872 4 1 2136.8
2014 Q2 1,997 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,311 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,698 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,793 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 2,064 3 0 1453.5
2013 Q1 1,036 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,399 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,862 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,204 1 0 453.7
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 0 0 0
2011 Q3 1,743 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,949 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 901 2 1 2219.8
2010 Q4 1,218 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,479 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,443 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 796 2 0 2512.6
2009 Q4 1,061 8 4 7540.1
2009 Q3 1,276 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,608 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1,226 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,032 1 0 969.0
2008 Q3 1,091 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,139 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 862 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,096 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,294 1 0 772.8
2007 Q2 1,246 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 585 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 757 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 955 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,283 6 4 4676.5
2006 Q1 644 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 609 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 622 10 5 16077.2
2005 Q2 947 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 631 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,448 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,484 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 951 14 5 14721.3
2004 Q1 434 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 677 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 619 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 352 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 607 2 0 3294.9
2002 Q4 771 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 491 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 580 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 455 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 668 5 1 7485.0
2001 Q3 920 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 115 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 128 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 653 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 713 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,060 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 257 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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The full compliance file on JNS

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.