Mining Incidents

Pioneer Jaw Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Aaran Harold Leustek
Ely, St Louis County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103204

Pioneer Jaw has $11K 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 2001
102
citations
20
significant & substantial
$10,607
proposed penalties
$10,607
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
53
inspections on record
417
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: 417 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Pioneer Jaw has $11K 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
102 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-11-05.
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 Q1 21 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 979 6 1 6128.7
2024 Q3 224 1 0 4464.3
2024 Q2 909 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,122 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,635 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 522 0 0 0.0
Show 86 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 964 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 139 4 0 28777.0
2022 Q2 744 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 975 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,721 3 1 1102.5
2021 Q2 1,567 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 883 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,400 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,144 3 1 2622.4
2020 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 221 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,748 4 0 2288.3
2019 Q2 1,145 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 974 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,500 2 0 800.0
2018 Q2 2,420 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 650 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,063 4 0 3762.9
2017 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 665 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 268 1 0 3731.3
2016 Q1 70 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,225 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,259 3 0 2382.8
2015 Q2 506 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 891 3 2 3367.0
2014 Q3 2,300 2 1 869.6
2014 Q2 930 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 451 1 0 2217.3
2013 Q3 591 4 2 6768.2
2013 Q2 981 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 449 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 557 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,370 2 0 1459.9
2012 Q2 835 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 740 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,424 2 0 1404.5
2011 Q2 200 6 2 30000.0
2010 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 324 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 2,330 1 0 429.2
2009 Q2 1,303 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 0 6 2
2008 Q3 0 0 0
2008 Q2 233 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 144 3 0 20833.3
2007 Q3 2,576 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 121 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 0 1 0
2006 Q3 0 0 0
2006 Q2 0 0 0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 354 5 1 14124.3
2005 Q3 0 0 0
2005 Q2 0 0 0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 619 2 0 3231.0
2004 Q3 1,050 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,072 1 0 932.8
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 1,054 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 2,400 4 1 1666.7
2003 Q2 251 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 925 7 2 7567.6
2002 Q3 1,002 6 0 5988.0
2002 Q2 769 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 2,277 12 3 5270.1
2001 Q3 5,492 3 1 546.2
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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The full compliance file on Pioneer Jaw

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.