Mining Incidents

Parkers Prairie Pit #2: 20 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Mark Lee Excavating Inc · Surface
Controlled by Mark Lee
Parkers Prairie, Douglas County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103906

Parkers Prairie Pit #2 has $3K 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 2017
20
citations
4
significant & substantial
$2,630
proposed penalties
$2,630
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
11
inspections on record
110
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: 110 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Parkers Prairie Pit #2 has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
20 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-11-26.
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
55.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 35.0% low, 65.0% 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: 2018-10-24, 7 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2018-10-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 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. Mark Lee Excavating Inc 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 3
2024 3
2023 3
2022 2
2021 3
2020 3
2019 3
2018 3
2017 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Parkers Prairie Pit #2 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 148 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 260 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 473 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 195 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 424 1 0 2358.5
2024 Q3 401 0 0 0.0
Show 29 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 294 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 402 1 0 2487.6
2023 Q3 545 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 351 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 386 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 271 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 47 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 85 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 246 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 350 1 1 2857.1
2020 Q3 434 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 250 1 0 4000.0
2020 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 167 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 196 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 421 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 226 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 573 7 3 12216.4
2018 Q3 646 3 0 4644.0
2018 Q2 101 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 423 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 688 6 0 8720.9
2017 Q2 379 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.