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LGEX-Perm-Crocker: 70 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

L.G. EVERIST, INC. · Surface
Controlled by L G Everist Inc
WASHTA, Ida County, IA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1302314

LGEX-Perm-Crocker has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 11 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2019–2021
Latest incident
Jan 2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
70
citations
14
significant & substantial
$12,341
proposed penalties
$11,375
paid to date
92% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $966 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See L.G. EVERIST, INC.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
40
inspections on record
549
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: 549 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

LGEX-Perm-Crocker has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 11 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.
$12K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
69 assessments are final orders; 11 contested dockets.
Of $8K in penalties contested before the Commission, $7K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-09-04.
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.
20.3%
significant & substantial
13.0%
high negligence or reckless
21.7%
reasonably likely or greater
58.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 11.6% low, 75.4% moderate, 13.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
42 citations taken to the federal commission · 60% of citations on record
  • Settled 36 · 86%
  • Stood as issued 5 · 12%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 2%
75%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 12 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
13%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$8K proposed, $7K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2014-12-15.
Contested penalties
ⓘ A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
CENT 2015-0132 Settlement Paez 2015 $2K → $2K
CENT 2014-0475 Settlement Paez 2015 $2K → $1K
CENT 2014-20M Settlement Miller 2014 $1K → $1K
CENT 2011-1050M Settlement Manning 2012 $963 → $800
CENT 2008-323M Dismissal Lesnick 2009 $526 → $526
CENT 2007-97M Settlement Manning 2008 $500 → $325
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2023-03-01, 3 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
6
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg5
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (6)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2023-03-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-10-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-10-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-10-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2011-04-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2006-04-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.27 1.21 0.22 Crusher Oper/Worker
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.
Ownership history
  1. Higman Sand And Gravel 2006 to 2015
  2. L.G. EVERIST, INC. 2015 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 4
2024 3
2023 2
2022 3
2021 3
2020 5
2019 5
2018 6
2017 6
2016 5
2015 4
2014 9
2013 6
2012 6
2011 5
2010 4
2009 1
2008 1
2007 3
2006 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

LGEX-Perm-Crocker sits in Ida County, Iowa, 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.
Ida County, Iowa · Population 6,944
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$62,841
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
2026 Q2 510 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 125 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 841 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,688 1 0 592.4
2025 Q2 2,065 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,422 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,423 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,630 0 0 0.0
Show 70 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1,658 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 552 2 1 3623.2
2023 Q4 960 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,233 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,161 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 911 1 0 1097.7
2022 Q4 1,227 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,841 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,921 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 774 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,330 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,977 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,411 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,426 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,077 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,032 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,183 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,959 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,618 3 0 1145.9
2019 Q3 4,031 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 4,294 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,425 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 3,258 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 4,474 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 4,292 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,659 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 3,463 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 5,046 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 4,818 3 0 622.7
2017 Q1 2,249 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 3,181 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 4,885 1 0 204.7
2016 Q2 4,149 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 981 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 2,339 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,529 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,598 3 0 1154.7
2014 Q4 2,130 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 3,923 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,942 12 1 3044.1
2014 Q1 650 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,890 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,735 6 2 3458.2
2013 Q2 1,759 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 2,014 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,508 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,651 3 0 1817.1
2012 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,587 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 600 1 0 1666.7
2011 Q1 50 1 0 20000.0
2010 Q4 802 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 40 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 753 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 160 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 0 1 0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 640 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 0 4 0
2007 Q3 2,576 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 2,329 5 3 2146.8
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 83 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 2,206 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 2,850 1 0 350.9
2006 Q1 1,416 6 3 4237.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2021 · 1 incident

January 13, 2021 IA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
L.G. EVERIST, INC. · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Strain to back while EE was replacing wear saddles on support arms.

2019 · 1 incident

January 14, 2019 IA · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
L.G. EVERIST, INC. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was lifting a railroad tie to hold down a tarp covering a crusher parts, when letting it down it smacked a finger between the railroad tie and crusher.