Mining Incidents

Plant #2 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Scott Wirtjes
Alexandria, Douglas County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103240

Plant #2 has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2000
65
citations
10
significant & substantial
$8,018
proposed penalties
$7,536
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $482 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
34
inspections on record
330
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: 330 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 #2 has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
65 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-16.
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 1 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,494 2 1 1338.7
2025 Q2 1,541 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 941 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,646 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,091 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
Show 93 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,969 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 314 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,368 1 0 731.0
2022 Q2 1,537 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 233 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,358 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,921 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,115 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,418 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1 4 0 4000000.0
2020 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,032 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,308 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 4,573 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,160 5 1 2314.8
2018 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,329 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 606 12 2 19802.0
2017 Q2 1,386 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1 1 0 1000000.0
2016 Q2 1,721 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 838 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 489 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,469 2 1 1361.5
2014 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,502 1 0 665.8
2013 Q1 0 1 0
2012 Q4 2,130 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,268 4 0 1763.7
2012 Q2 1,896 1 0 527.4
2012 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 910 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,584 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,801 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1 2 0 2000000.0
2010 Q4 1,920 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,980 9 3 4545.5
2010 Q2 1,426 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 857 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,220 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,451 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 613 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,365 3 0 2197.8
2008 Q2 1,281 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,080 5 0 4629.6
2007 Q3 1,440 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,080 1 0 925.9
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 1,920 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,390 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,380 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 360 5 1 13888.9
2005 Q3 1,520 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 960 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 1,512 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,464 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,392 3 0 2155.2
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 660 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,464 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2003 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 0 0 0
2002 Q3 1,032 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,032 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 1,155 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 979 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 450 2 1 4444.4
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 0 0 0
2000 Q3 840 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,200 1 0 833.3

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 #2

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.