Mining Incidents

Portable Wash Plant #1 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Brett Muecke
Slayton, Murray County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103738

Portable Wash Plant #1 has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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 2011
27
citations
4
significant & substantial
$3,550
proposed penalties
$3,550
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
20
inspections on record
208
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: 208 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Portable Wash Plant #1 has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
27 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-07-26.
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 1,075 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,480 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,430 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 1,292 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,415 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,706 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
Show 50 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,243 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,160 1 0 862.1
2023 Q2 1,352 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 1,320 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,175 1 0 851.1
2022 Q2 1,193 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 240 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,375 2 0 1454.5
2021 Q2 859 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 660 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 665 5 0 7518.8
2020 Q2 1,230 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 330 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 670 3 0 4477.6
2019 Q2 935 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 990 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,980 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 850 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 1,320 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 640 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,080 4 2 3703.7
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 744 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 360 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 770 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 660 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,210 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 986 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 23 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 728 2 1 2747.3
2014 Q3 1,440 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,250 4 0 3200.0
2014 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 405 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 770 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,040 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 896 1 0 1116.1
2012 Q3 480 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,375 1 1 727.3
2012 Q1 130 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 655 1 0 1526.7
2011 Q3 685 2 0 2919.7

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 Portable Wash Plant #1

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.