Mining Incidents

Plant #3 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Scott Wirtjes
Alexandria, Douglas County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103144

Plant #3 has $15K 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 2001
70
citations
18
significant & substantial
$15,067
proposed penalties
$15,067
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
39
inspections on record
392
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: 392 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 #3 has $15K 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.
$15K
proposed penalties
$15K
current assessed
$15K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
70 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-10-08.
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 1,700 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,548 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,726 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,067 6 2 2902.8
2024 Q3 3,338 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,935 3 1 1550.4
2024 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
Show 95 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 969 2 1 2064.0
2023 Q2 113 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 707 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,439 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,675 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,999 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,368 8 3 2375.3
2019 Q2 1,393 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 365 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,209 4 1 3308.5
2018 Q2 2,285 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,028 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,245 1 0 445.4
2017 Q2 3,581 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,777 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 3,386 2 0 590.7
2016 Q2 2,651 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 950 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,560 1 0 641.0
2015 Q2 1,069 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 807 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,773 2 2 721.2
2014 Q2 1,578 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,827 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,198 1 0 455.0
2013 Q1 0 1 0
2012 Q4 2,664 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,160 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,963 1 0 509.4
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 1,737 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 2,340 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,201 1 0 832.6
2011 Q1 1 2 0 2000000.0
2010 Q4 1,836 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 2,105 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,500 3 1 2000.0
2010 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,266 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 2,197 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 2,160 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,155 2 0 1731.6
2008 Q3 2,225 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,866 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 2,880 3 1 1041.7
2007 Q3 2,340 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,620 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 296 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 2,060 4 0 1941.7
2006 Q2 2,160 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 1,920 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 2,088 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 2,400 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 2,142 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 2,888 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 2,880 6 2 2083.3
2003 Q3 2,856 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 2,640 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 2,120 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 3,480 10 3 2873.6
2002 Q2 3,300 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 1,650 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,820 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 2,200 7 1 3181.8
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 1,622 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 3,528 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 3,327 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,280 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.

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The full compliance file on Plant #3

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.