Mining Incidents

Lord's Pit Wash Plant: 8 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Mark Lee Excavating Inc · Surface
Controlled by Mark Lee
Alexandria, Douglas County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103927

Lord's Pit Wash Plant has $1K 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 2019
8
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,152
proposed penalties
$1,152
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
10
inspections on record
89
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: 89 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Lord's Pit Wash Plant has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
8 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-07-24.
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.
25.0%
significant & substantial
12.5%
high negligence or reckless
25.0%
reasonably likely or greater
62.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 50.0% low, 37.5% moderate, 12.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Mark Lee Excavating Inc 2018 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 67
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 3
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Lord's Pit Wash Plant sits in Douglas County, Minnesota, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Douglas County, Minnesota · Population 39,354
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$77,264
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 132 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 124 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 188 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 99 2 1 20202.0
Show 24 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 97 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 119 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 178 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 19 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 128 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 166 3 1 18072.3
2022 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 58 1 0 17241.4
2021 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 223 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 73 1 0 13698.6
2020 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 315 1 0 3174.6
2019 Q2 150 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 42 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 322 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 293 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.