Mining Incidents

Rip Rap Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Greg Bruening
Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1302384

Rip Rap Plant has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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 2009
23
citations
7
significant & substantial
$5,300
proposed penalties
$4,523
paid to date
85% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $777 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
23
inspections on record
219
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: 219 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Rip Rap Plant has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
23 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2021-06-08.
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 1,194 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,648 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,321 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 1,249 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 595 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,357 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 333 0 0 0.0
Show 60 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,296 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,842 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,460 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,201 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,433 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,790 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,502 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 864 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 566 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,425 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,469 1 0 680.7
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 923 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,766 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,764 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 195 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,831 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,023 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,745 3 2 1719.2
2019 Q1 603 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,206 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,497 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 323 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 388 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,614 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,898 1 1 526.9
2017 Q2 1,826 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,250 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,034 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,855 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,052 1 1 487.3
2016 Q1 95 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 2,040 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,600 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,413 4 1 1657.7
2015 Q1 1,012 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,935 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,240 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 2,006 2 1 997.0
2014 Q1 315 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 2,006 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,260 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 237 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 605 1 1 1652.9
2012 Q4 941 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,771 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,373 2 0 842.8
2012 Q1 2,065 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 3,206 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 2,094 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,590 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1,517 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 3,176 3 0 944.6
2010 Q3 2,541 1 0 393.5
2010 Q2 2,196 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 742 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 2,500 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 2,369 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,966 4 0 2034.6
2009 Q1 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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