Mining Incidents

PLANT NO 4 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Greg Bruening
Sundance, Winneshiek County, IA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4801723

PLANT NO 4 has $37K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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 2008
95
citations
34
significant & substantial
$36,697
proposed penalties
$36,601
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $96 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
31
inspections on record
439
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: 439 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 NO 4 has $37K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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.
$37K
proposed penalties
$37K
current assessed
$37K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
94 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-10.
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 2,580 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,158 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,798 1 0 357.4
2025 Q1 179 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,232 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,046 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,288 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
Show 64 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,642 3 0 1135.5
2023 Q3 3,049 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,567 1 0 389.6
2023 Q1 1,832 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,913 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3,007 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,526 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 477 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,857 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,866 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,208 3 0 935.2
2021 Q1 192 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,179 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,790 9 1 3225.8
2020 Q2 2,539 4 1 1575.4
2020 Q1 1,433 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,491 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,168 12 6 3787.9
2019 Q2 1,734 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,666 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 3,383 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,448 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,505 3 0 1197.6
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 2,471 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 3,034 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,102 1 0 322.4
2017 Q1 2,467 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,313 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 3,476 2 0 575.4
2016 Q2 2,644 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 348 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 3,790 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 4,628 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 3,987 4 2 1003.3
2015 Q1 884 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 3,190 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 4,236 14 6 3305.0
2014 Q2 3,318 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,689 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 3,318 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 4,417 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 2,762 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 4,514 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 3,972 7 3 1762.3
2012 Q3 4,317 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 4,369 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 12 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 4,277 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 5,546 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 4,021 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 4,318 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 4,296 13 7 3026.1
2010 Q3 3,249 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 3,856 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1,166 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 2,512 13 8 5175.2
2009 Q3 3,113 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 3,333 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 2,479 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 3,587 5 0 1393.9
2008 Q3 2,976 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,971 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 2,341 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 NO 4

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.