Mining Incidents

Newark Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Ronald L Follmer
Kearney, Buffalo County, NE  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2501184

Newark has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 outstanding across 1 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 2002
23
citations
9
significant & substantial
$4,962
proposed penalties
$4,811
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $151 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
29
inspections on record
318
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: 318 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Newark has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 outstanding across 1 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$151
outstanding
21 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-16.
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 876 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 168 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 144 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 107 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
Show 68 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 15 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 163 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 8 1 0 125000.0
2022 Q3 188 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 43 1 0 23255.8
2022 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 189 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 773 1 0 1293.7
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 37 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 745 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 664 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 105 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 10 1 1 100000.0
2019 Q3 578 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q1 146 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 320 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,121 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 941 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 951 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,249 2 1 1601.3
2017 Q1 621 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 894 1 0 1118.6
2016 Q3 1,295 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,052 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 344 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 303 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,010 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 132 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 0 0 0
2011 Q2 0 0 0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 1,013 1 1 987.2
2009 Q2 597 6 4 10050.3
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 0 1 0
2008 Q3 859 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,857 5 2 2692.5
2006 Q3 0 0 0
2006 Q2 0 0 0
2006 Q1 1,357 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 0 0 0
2005 Q3 0 0 0
2005 Q2 0 0 0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 1,449 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,826 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 217 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 0 0 0
2002 Q3 984 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 1,340 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,676 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 0 0 0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 0 0 0
2000 Q3 0 0 0
2000 Q2 0 0 0
2000 Q1 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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