Mining Incidents

Quest Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Rebecca Hill
MINOT, Ward County, ND  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3200953

Quest has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K 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 2013
9
citations
4
significant & substantial
$4,109
proposed penalties
$1,087
paid to date
26% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,022 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2013
18
inspections on record
254
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: 254 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Quest has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K 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
$1K
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
8 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-27.
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 1,327 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,182 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,300 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,525 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,352 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,319 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,993 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
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Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,805 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,014 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,769 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 1,622 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3,122 1 0 320.3
2022 Q2 2,621 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 161 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,984 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,797 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,200 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 1,933 1 1 517.3
2020 Q3 3,076 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,528 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 574 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,174 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,970 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 1,333 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,416 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,450 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 1,336 1 1 748.5
2017 Q3 3,349 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,890 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 1,923 1 0 520.0
2016 Q3 2,576 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,599 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 2,964 2 0 674.8
2015 Q3 3,008 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 4,261 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 1,876 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,907 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 2,615 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 1,745 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 3,017 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,817 2 1 1100.7
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 1,374 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,886 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,440 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 Quest

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.