Mining Incidents

Mintle Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Michael D Giles
Thedford, Thomas County, NE  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2500912

Mintle has $15K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2004
80
citations
24
significant & substantial
$14,560
proposed penalties
$13,866
paid to date
95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $694 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
44
inspections on record
510
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: 510 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mintle has $15K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$15K
proposed penalties
$14K
current assessed
$14K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
78 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-30.
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 122 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 196 5 0 25510.2
2025 Q2 598 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,560 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 112 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 230 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 567 1 1 1763.7
2023 Q1 0 0 0
Show 89 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 557 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 550 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 1,040 3 0 2884.6
2021 Q3 1,602 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,326 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 1,030 5 1 4854.4
2020 Q3 1,210 1 0 826.4
2020 Q2 1,330 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 272 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 650 10 6 15384.6
2019 Q3 1,250 3 1 2400.0
2019 Q2 767 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 32 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 221 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,037 3 2 2893.0
2018 Q2 1,182 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 867 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,147 4 3 3487.4
2017 Q2 921 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 348 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 950 1 0 1052.6
2016 Q2 422 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 498 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 650 5 2 7692.3
2015 Q2 679 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 670 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 5 5 1 1000000.0
2014 Q2 1,605 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 520 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,950 4 2 2051.3
2013 Q2 1,200 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q3 1,125 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,560 1 0 641.0
2012 Q1 2,380 1 0 420.2
2011 Q2 1,945 16 2 8226.2
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 1,455 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 1,268 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,687 1 0 592.8
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 1,980 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 2,100 1 0 476.2
2008 Q2 833 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 280 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 2,245 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 2,154 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 2,709 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 896 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q3 724 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 630 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 0 0 0
2005 Q3 1,929 2 2 1036.8
2005 Q2 1,804 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 200 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 72 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 2,679 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 2,276 3 1 1318.1
2004 Q1 960 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2003 Q3 0 0 0
2003 Q2 2,426 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 494 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 0 0 0
2002 Q3 1,560 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 4,446 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 760 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 792 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,344 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 2,815 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 0 0 0
2000 Q3 4,115 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 3,261 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,902 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 Mintle

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.