Mining Incidents

Powers Pit: 9 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Ilse Gravel · Surface
Controlled by Derek J Ilse
woodstock, Pipestone County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103942

Powers Pit has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K 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 2024
9
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,347
proposed penalties
$0
paid to date
0% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,347 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
9
inspections on record
71
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: 71 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Powers Pit has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K 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
$0
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
9 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-19.
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
22.2%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
33.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 77.8% moderate, 22.2% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Ilse Gravel 2019 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 1
2024 1
2023 1
2022 1
2021 1
2020 1
2019 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Powers Pit sits in Pipestone 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.
Pipestone County, Minnesota · Population 9,352
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$66,073
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 70 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 78 5 0 64102.6
2025 Q3 213 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 102 1 0 9803.9
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 53 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 121 3 0 24793.4
Show 20 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 71 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 87 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 112 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 212 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 83 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 71 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 56 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 42 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 113 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 112 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 192 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 210 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 130 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 112 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 144 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.