Mining Incidents

Plant JJ: 60 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Lakeside Construction and Services Inc · Surface
Controlled by Richard C Strand
Fordville, Walsh County, ND  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3200822

Plant JJ has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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 2005
60
citations
12
significant & substantial
$19,320
proposed penalties
$19,320
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
27
inspections on record
354
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: 354 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 JJ has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$19K
proposed penalties
$19K
current assessed
$19K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
59 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $8K in penalties contested before the Commission, $8K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-30.
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.
20.0%
significant & substantial
16.7%
high negligence or reckless
20.0%
reasonably likely or greater
58.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 6.7% low, 76.7% moderate, 16.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
3 citations taken to the federal commission · 5% of citations on record
  • Settled 3 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$8K proposed, $8K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2010-07-16.
Contested penalties
A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
CENT 2010-1019M Settlement McCarthy 2012 $8K → $8K
CENT 2010-1020M Settlement Lesnick 2010 $100 → $100
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2024-10-16
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-10-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-10-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.37 1.32 0.28 Crusher Oper/Worker
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. Lakeside Construction and Services Inc 2005 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 13
2025 4
2024 9
2023 3
2022 5
2021 6
2020 5
2019 3
2018 2
2017 3
2016 1
2015 3
2014 3
2013 6
2012 3
2011 3
2010 2
2009 4
2008 3
2007 2
2006 2
2005 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Plant JJ sits in Walsh County, North Dakota, 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.
Walsh County, North Dakota · Population 10,488
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$69,976
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 650 1 0 1538.5
2026 Q1 52 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 205 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,605 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 330 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 205 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 209 1 1 4784.7
2024 Q3 1,305 0 0 0.0
Show 73 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 320 1 0 3125.0
2024 Q1 90 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 205 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,305 2 0 1532.6
2023 Q2 201 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 12 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 805 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,510 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 802 2 0 2493.8
2022 Q1 79 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,010 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,515 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,110 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 100 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 185 10 3 54054.1
2020 Q3 1,940 2 1 1030.9
2020 Q2 2,005 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 79 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 165 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,220 1 0 450.5
2019 Q2 1,845 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 12 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 165 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 151 6 0 39735.1
2018 Q2 10 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 5 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 62 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 381 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 207 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 0 0 0
2016 Q2 535 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 5 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 405 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 970 3 0 3092.8
2015 Q2 500 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 458 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 915 2 2 2185.8
2014 Q2 15 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 15 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 40 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 115 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 430 1 0 2325.6
2013 Q1 150 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 510 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,304 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,803 2 1 1109.3
2012 Q1 285 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 355 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,423 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 213 1 0 4694.8
2011 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 810 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,620 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 420 7 1 16666.7
2010 Q1 120 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 857 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 960 3 2 3125.0
2009 Q2 320 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 100 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 560 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,100 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 850 6 0 7058.8
2008 Q1 75 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 144 1 0 6944.4
2007 Q3 456 2 0 4386.0
2007 Q2 700 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 370 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 850 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 75 1 0 13333.3
2005 Q3 145 5 1 34482.8

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.