Mining Incidents

Rock Creek Materials: 15 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Fort Wayne Rocks Inc · Surface
Controlled by Craig Goode
Bluffton, Wells County, IN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1202477

Rock Creek Materials has $3K 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 2017
15
citations
7
significant & substantial
$2,810
proposed penalties
$2,810
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
16
inspections on record
124
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: 124 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Rock Creek Materials has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
15 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-10-30.
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.
46.7%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
46.7%
reasonably likely or greater
33.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Fort wayne rocks inc 2016 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 3
2024 3
2023 3
2022 3
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 3
2016 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Rock Creek Materials sits in Wells County, Indiana, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Wells County, Indiana · Population 28,261
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$69,741
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 240 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 223 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 650 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 432 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 36 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 50 1 1 20000.0
2024 Q3 144 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 718 0 0 0.0
Show 30 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q1 576 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 324 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 315 2 0 6349.2
2023 Q2 576 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 189 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 335 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 405 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 504 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 46 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 220 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 96 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 312 4 3 12820.5
2021 Q1 260 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 21 1 1 47619.0
2020 Q3 108 2 0 18518.5
2020 Q2 58 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 65 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 78 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 75 2 2 26666.7
2019 Q2 85 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 155 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 52 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 12 1 0 83333.3
2018 Q2 96 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 60 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 135 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 73 2 0 27397.3
2016 Q4 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.