Mining Incidents

Richards Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Comstock Trk, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Keith R Comstock
Caledonia, Houston County, MN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2103328

Richards Pit has $2K 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 2003
23
citations
3
significant & substantial
$2,383
proposed penalties
$2,383
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
29
inspections on record
188
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: 188 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Richards Pit has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
23 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2021-07-01.
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
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q3 20 1 0 50000.0
2021 Q2 8 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 10 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
Show 71 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q3 14 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 17 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 12 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 13 6 0 461538.5
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 0 0 0
2016 Q3 0 0 0
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 89 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 152 1 1 6578.9
2015 Q2 114 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 129 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 201 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 337 1 0 2967.4
2014 Q2 99 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 105 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 219 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 365 1 0 2739.7
2013 Q2 208 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 64 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 240 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 218 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 226 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 90 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 243 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 300 2 1 6666.7
2011 Q2 127 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 141 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 197 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 269 6 1 22304.8
2010 Q2 122 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 65 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 150 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 188 2 0 10638.3
2009 Q2 107 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 66 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 165 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 136 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 49 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 170 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 143 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 148 1 0 6756.8
2007 Q1 39 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 145 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 125 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 154 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 42 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 100 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 114 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 123 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 21 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 103 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 104 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 80 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 171 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 122 2 0 16393.4
2003 Q2 120 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 26 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 120 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 75 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 102 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 Richards Pit

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.