Mining Incidents

Plant 2: 45 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Quality Aggregate, LLC. · Surface
Controlled by Jerome Trapp
Ripon WI, Fond Du Lac County, WI  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4703753

Plant 2 has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $453 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 2016
45
citations
6
significant & substantial
$9,523
proposed penalties
$9,070
paid to date
95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $453 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
25
inspections on record
271
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: 271 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: 2020-06-10.
On record since 2020.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Plant 2 has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $453 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$453
outstanding
44 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-27.
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.
13.6%
significant & substantial
20.5%
high negligence or reckless
13.6%
reasonably likely or greater
18.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 79.5% moderate, 20.5% 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: 2026-03-11
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
9
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (9)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-03-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2026-03-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2026-03-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2021-06-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-06-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-06-30 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.17 Crusher Oper/Worker
2021-06-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-02-08 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.12 10 0.01 Crusher Oper/Worker
2017-02-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader 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. Quality Aggregate LLC 2015 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 3
2024 3
2023 3
2022 3
2021 2
2020 2
2019 3
2018 4
2017 4
2016 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Plant 2 sits in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin · Population 104,053
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$73,154
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 982 3 0 3055.0
2026 Q1 421 3 0 7125.9
2025 Q4 847 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 954 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,452 2 0 1377.4
2025 Q1 522 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 402 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 829 0 0 0.0
Show 31 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1,068 1 0 936.3
2024 Q1 522 3 0 5747.1
2023 Q4 789 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 722 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,141 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 911 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 954 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,154 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 980 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,134 2 0 1763.7
2021 Q4 1,202 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 780 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 650 4 0 6153.8
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 625 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,302 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,260 6 4 4761.9
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 906 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,190 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,245 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 455 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 654 4 1 6116.2
2018 Q3 404 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 891 1 0 1122.3
2017 Q3 1,225 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,351 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 885 4 0 4519.8
2016 Q4 913 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,593 2 0 1255.5
2016 Q2 166 0 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.