Mining Incidents

Plant 14: 10 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Jeff A Carlson
Hibbing, St Louis County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103631

Plant 14 has $4K 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
1
Years on record
2019
Latest incident
Mar 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2012
10
citations
4
significant & substantial
$3,568
proposed penalties
$3,568
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
21
inspections on record
103
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: 103 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2015-05-05.
On record since 2015.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Plant 14 has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
9 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-08-09.
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.
44.4%
significant & substantial
11.1%
high negligence or reckless
44.4%
reasonably likely or greater
66.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 11.1% low, 77.8% moderate, 11.1% 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: 2014-10-01, 11 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2014-10-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
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. Ulland Brothers, Inc. 2008 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 6
2024 0
2023 5
2022 6
2021 3
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
2016 3
2015 3
2014 4
2013 3
2012 3
2011 2
2010 2
2009 0
2008 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Plant 14 sits in St. Louis County, Minnesota, where the Census mining category is 2.3% 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.
St. Louis County, Minnesota · Population 200,056
2.3%
Mining share of county employment
$69,455
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 1 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 871 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 55 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 176 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 726 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
Show 64 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 228 1 1 4386.0
2023 Q2 803 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,468 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 162 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,348 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 240 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 708 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 318 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 564 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 434 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 226 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 26 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 222 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 441 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 73 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 451 1 0 2217.3
2015 Q4 344 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 400 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1 2 1 2000000.0
2015 Q1 1,201 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 4,917 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 554 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 199 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 309 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 359 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 699 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,651 6 2 3634.2
2012 Q2 1,303 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 179 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 604 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 0 0 0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 165 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 470 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 651 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 1,533 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,891 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2019 · 1 incident

March 7, 2019 MN · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Ulland Brothers, Inc. · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Hearing test report indicates a recordable standard threshold shift. Miner declined the opportunity to retest.