Mining Incidents

Pratt County: 19 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Pratt County Road Dept · Surface
Controlled by Pratt County-KS
Pratt, Pratt County, KS  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1401655

Pratt County has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $558 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 2006
19
citations
5
significant & substantial
$2,436
proposed penalties
$1,878
paid to date
77% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $558 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
32
inspections on record
292
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: 292 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Pratt County has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $558 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$558
outstanding
17 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
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.
26.3%
significant & substantial
5.3%
high negligence or reckless
26.3%
reasonably likely or greater
36.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 10.5% low, 84.2% moderate, 5.3% 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: 2022-04-06, 4 years ago
3
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2022-04-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-09-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-03-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 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. Pratt County Road Dept 2005 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 3
2021 2
2020 2
2019 3
2018 2
2017 3
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 2
2012 2
2011 2
2010 2
2009 2
2008 2
2007 2
2006 8
2005 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Pratt County sits in Pratt County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 4.8% 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.
Pratt County, Kansas · Population 9,120
4.8%
Mining share of county employment
$64,348
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 71 2 1 28169.0
2026 Q1 69 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 81 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 51 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
Show 74 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 47 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 101 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 123 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 19 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 14 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 71 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 53 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1 1 0 1000000.0
2021 Q2 13 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 128 2 1 15625.0
2020 Q1 91 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 25 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 45 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 73 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 89 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 43 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 20 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 99 4 0 40404.0
2017 Q4 43 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 6 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 56 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 38 1 0 26315.8
2016 Q4 140 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 24 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 172 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 113 3 1 26548.7
2015 Q4 34 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q2 108 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 132 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 104 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 80 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 84 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 196 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 28 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 119 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 414 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 476 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 630 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 455 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 480 1 1 2083.3
2012 Q1 686 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 784 1 0 1275.5
2011 Q3 644 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 832 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 707 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 504 1 0 1984.1
2010 Q3 378 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 623 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 490 2 0 4081.6
2009 Q4 392 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 525 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 714 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 644 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 700 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 812 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 632 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 574 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 672 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 721 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 896 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 882 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 3,416 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 3,584 1 1 279.0
2006 Q2 3,640 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 3,528 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,728 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.