Mining Incidents

Plant 7 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Warren W Harshman
Howard, Elk County, KS  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1401745

Plant 7 has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $604 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 2018
30
citations
4
significant & substantial
$6,864
proposed penalties
$6,260
paid to date
91% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $604 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
19
inspections on record
253
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: 253 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 7 has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $604 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$604
outstanding
25 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-15.
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 2,024 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,100 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,395 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 595 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,931 4 0 1364.7
2024 Q3 5,508 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 4,293 9 1 2096.4
2024 Q1 3,620 0 0 0.0
Show 29 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 4,258 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 4,116 1 0 243.0
2023 Q2 4,641 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,037 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 4,730 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 4,449 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 4,688 4 2 853.2
2022 Q1 5,610 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 4,925 3 0 609.1
2021 Q3 5,921 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 4,831 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 4,385 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 4,239 1 0 235.9
2020 Q3 4,473 3 1 670.7
2020 Q2 6,722 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 3,767 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 3,564 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,486 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 232 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,154 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,310 1 0 763.4
2014 Q2 0 0 0
2014 Q1 861 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 0 0 0
2013 Q2 1,358 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,993 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 177 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,519 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 358 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 7

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.