Mining Incidents

Rollag Plant: 13 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Strata Corporation · Surface
Controlled by Knife River Corporation
Rollag, Clay County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103810

Rollag Plant 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
2
Years on record
2014–2024
Latest incident
May 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2013
13
citations
3
significant & substantial
$1,983
proposed penalties
$1,983
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2013
15
inspections on record
177
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: 177 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Rollag Plant 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
13 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-05-14.
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.
23.1%
significant & substantial
7.7%
high negligence or reckless
23.1%
reasonably likely or greater
38.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 23.1% low, 69.2% moderate, 7.7% 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: 2025-05-14
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
9
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (9)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-05-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-05-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2025-05-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-05-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.7 1.45 0.48 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-09-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-09-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-09-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2013-09-18 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.2 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-09-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer 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. Strata Corporation 2013 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 6
2024 2
2023 3
2022 3
2021 4
2020 3
2019 6
2018 5
2017 4
2016 4
2015 4
2014 4
2013 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Rollag Plant sits in Clay County, Minnesota, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Clay County, Minnesota · Population 65,628
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$77,664
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 1,356 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 1,812 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 4,431 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,148 2 0 931.1
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 1,294 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,209 0 0 0.0
Show 44 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 2,970 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 1,533 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,902 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,160 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 1,605 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,113 2 0 946.5
2022 Q2 1,975 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 868 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,735 1 1 365.6
2021 Q2 1,947 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 403 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 672 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,360 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,953 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 2,367 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,602 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,102 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 3,893 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,837 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,560 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 1,640 1 0 609.8
2017 Q3 2,771 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,749 3 0 1091.3
2017 Q1 571 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,711 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,772 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,554 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 758 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 2,480 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 3,060 1 0 326.8
2015 Q2 3,295 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 590 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,303 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 3,121 2 1 640.8
2014 Q2 2,385 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 67 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 2,097 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,683 1 1 594.2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2024 · 1 incident

May 10, 2024 MN · Metal/Non-Metal welder (non-shop) SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Strata Corporation · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was standing on ladder when the wind blew the ladder causing them to lose their balance falling and landing on a hand railing.

2014 · 1 incident

July 15, 2014 MN · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Strata Corporation · Struck against a moving object

Drove over a couple of ruts in the yard causing the loader to bounce fairly hard. Ruts have since been filled in.