Mining Incidents

KMM-FS Plant - Portable: 15 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Tilden, Chippewa County, WI  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4703598

KMM-FS Plant - Portable has $2K 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
2
Years on record
2015–2018
Latest incident
Jun 2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2011
15
citations
3
significant & substantial
$1,518
proposed penalties
$1,518
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
20
inspections on record
203
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: 203 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

KMM-FS Plant - Portable has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
15 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2018-02-06.
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
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
20.0%
reasonably likely or greater
40.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 53.3% low, 46.7% moderate, 0.0% 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: 2018-02-06, 8 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
11
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg10
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (11)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2018-02-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-02-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-02-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2014-03-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2014-03-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-03-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2012-08-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2012-08-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-09-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 1.32 0.10 Bobcat Operator
2011-09-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-09-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader 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.

KMM-FS Plant - Portable recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2014.

Injury rate, 2014
This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.39 and the all-US-mining average was 2.93 cases per 100 workers.
In Wisconsin, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.86 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2014 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2013 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2012 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. EOG Resources, Inc. 2010 to 2011
  2. Kraemer Mining & Materials, Inc. 2011 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2021 0
2020 0
2019 4
2018 4
2017 1
2016 0
2015 12
2014 28
2013 25
2012 18
2011 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

KMM-FS Plant - Portable sits in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, 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.
Chippewa County, Wisconsin · Population 66,558
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$74,009
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
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 539 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,115 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 5,172 0 0 0.0
Show 30 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2019 Q1 902 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,729 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,299 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,833 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 3,435 1 0 291.1
2017 Q4 542 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 674 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 960 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 0 0 0
2016 Q3 0 0 0
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 0 0 0
2015 Q3 1,691 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 9,526 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 3,496 1 0 286.0
2014 Q4 10,343 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 16,986 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 12,037 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 5,718 1 0 174.9
2013 Q4 11,433 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 11,432 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 13,870 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 9,889 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 10,509 1 0 95.2
2012 Q3 12,037 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 10,273 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 5,909 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 150 1 1 6666.7
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2018 · 1 incident

June 8, 2018 WI · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman STRIKING OR BUMPING
Kraemer Mining & Materials, Inc. · Struck against stationary object

Employee was manufacturing a guard for a conveyor shaft out of expanded metal. Employee dropped hammer and when ee bent over left upper arm was cut by the metal edge requiring 8 stitches.

2015 · 1 incident

February 28, 2015 WI · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Kraemer Mining & Materials, Inc. · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Miner went to ER for treatment for infection from minor cut sustained on 2/19/2015