Mining Incidents

Plant #1 Metal/Non-Metal

Ada, Norman County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103894

Plant #1 has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3 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 2016
14
citations
5
significant & substantial
$3,466
proposed penalties
$2,399
paid to date
69% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,067 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
11
inspections on record
97
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: 97 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Plant #1 has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$3
outstanding
14 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-29.
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 193 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 288 2 0 6944.4
2024 Q3 247 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 77 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 136 3 0 22058.8
2022 Q3 121 1 0 8264.5
2021 Q3 52 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 32 0 0 0.0
Show 10 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2020 Q4 71 6 4 84507.0
2020 Q3 154 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 136 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 44 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 116 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 186 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 110 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 42 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 403 1 0 2481.4
2016 Q3 662 1 1 1510.6

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 Plant #1

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.