Mining Incidents

Plant #1: 50 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Rosebud Sioux Tribe · Surface
Rosebud, Todd County, SD  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3901533

Plant #1 has $6K 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 2008
50
citations
8
significant & substantial
$6,412
proposed penalties
$6,412
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
46
inspections on record
394
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: 394 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 $6K 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
47 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-10.
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.
17.0%
significant & substantial
25.5%
high negligence or reckless
17.0%
reasonably likely or greater
27.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 8.5% low, 66.0% moderate, 25.5% 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: 2021-11-23, 4 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2021-11-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-11-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2009-05-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.79 0.22 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-05-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 1.31 0.21 Dry Screen Plant Operator
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. Rosebud Sioux Tribe 2008 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 1
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
2016 2
2015 1
2014 2
2013 1
2012 2
2011 2
2010 2
2009 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Plant #1 sits in Todd County, South Dakota, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Todd County, South Dakota · Population 9,293
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$39,148
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 389 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 414 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 413 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 418 1 0 2392.3
2025 Q2 407 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 860 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 742 3 0 4043.1
2024 Q3 831 0 0 0.0
Show 61 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 908 4 0 4405.3
2024 Q1 772 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 780 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 701 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 841 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 905 1 0 1105.0
2022 Q4 453 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 891 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 843 4 0 4745.0
2022 Q1 700 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 775 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 889 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 899 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 880 1 0 1136.4
2020 Q4 700 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 907 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 290 1 1 3448.3
2020 Q1 828 3 1 3623.2
2019 Q4 872 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 719 2 0 2781.6
2019 Q2 798 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 485 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 653 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 812 2 0 2463.1
2018 Q2 279 1 0 3584.2
2017 Q4 824 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 814 4 0 4914.0
2017 Q2 897 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,138 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 754 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 168 4 2 23809.5
2016 Q2 1,412 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 176 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,210 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 601 1 0 1663.9
2015 Q2 402 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 201 1 0 4975.1
2014 Q4 461 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,059 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 569 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 775 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 432 2 0 4629.6
2013 Q3 495 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 471 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 490 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 932 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 252 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 456 4 2 8771.9
2012 Q1 205 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 928 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 453 3 0 6622.5
2011 Q2 599 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 1,010 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,168 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 742 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 532 1 0 1879.7
2009 Q4 1,092 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,078 3 0 2782.9
2009 Q2 955 0 0 0.0
2009 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.