Mining Incidents

Portable Wash Plant #1: 11 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Integrity Material Sales Inc · Surface
Controlled by Douglas Ims
Medford, Steele County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103760

Portable Wash Plant #1 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 2012
11
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,412
proposed penalties
$1,412
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
16
inspections on record
113
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: 113 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 $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
11 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-04.
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
54.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 18.2% low, 81.8% 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: 2021-05-25, 5 years ago
2
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2021-05-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-10-29 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.2 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. Medford Sand and Gravel 2012 to 2024
  2. Integrity Material Sales Inc 2024 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 1
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 2
2012 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Wash Plant #1 sits in Steele County, Minnesota, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Steele County, Minnesota · Population 37,413
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$83,448
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 464 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 121 3 0 24793.4
2025 Q3 61 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 61 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 151 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 201 0 0 0.0
Show 49 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 216 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 129 1 0 7751.9
2023 Q3 222 2 0 9009.0
2023 Q2 140 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 154 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 136 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 457 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 390 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 33 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 379 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 243 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 193 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 389 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 48 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 215 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 311 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 48 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 171 1 0 5848.0
2017 Q3 378 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 244 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 89 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 454 1 0 2202.6
2016 Q2 167 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 174 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 420 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 441 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 39 2 0 51282.1
2014 Q3 226 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 108 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 172 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 79 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 613 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 135 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 550 1 0 1818.2
2012 Q2 178 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.