Mining Incidents

Plant 4: 12 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Jeff A Carlson
Virginia, St Louis County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103702

Plant 4 has $1K 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 2010
12
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,299
proposed penalties
$1,299
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2010
18
inspections on record
123
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: 123 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 4 has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
12 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-06-19.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
41.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 8.3% low, 91.7% moderate, 0.0% 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: 2025-07-16
4
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-07-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Screen/Scalper Operator
2025-07-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2025-07-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-11-03 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. Ulland Brothers, Inc. 2010 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 5
2025 5
2024 6
2023 3
2022 10
2021 3
2020 2
2019 4
2018 3
2017 3
2013 4
2012 3
2011 1
2010 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Plant 4 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 559 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1,266 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 784 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,804 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,856 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 1,064 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,741 0 0 0.0
Show 42 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 2,441 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 526 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 351 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,713 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,213 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3,957 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 264 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 830 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 172 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 724 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 183 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 284 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 360 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,604 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,066 3 0 2814.3
2019 Q1 41 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 750 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 543 2 0 3683.2
2018 Q2 293 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 43 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 88 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 105 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,757 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,551 6 0 3868.5
2012 Q2 358 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 842 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 183 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 152 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,302 1 0 768.0
2010 Q2 380 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.