Mining Incidents

RTS Shearing Metal/Non-Metal

RTS Shearing LLC · Surface
Jamestown, Stutsman County, ND  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3200884

RTS Shearing has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 6 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 2011
55
citations
18
significant & substantial
$16,904
proposed penalties
$15,560
paid to date
92% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,344 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
28
inspections on record
388
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: 388 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

RTS Shearing has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 6 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.
$17K
proposed penalties
$16K
current assessed
$16K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
54 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-05-21.
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 1,446 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,948 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,569 1 0 637.3
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 2,475 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,638 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,841 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
Show 51 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 3,281 4 1 1219.1
2023 Q3 2,366 4 3 1690.6
2023 Q2 2,384 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,555 1 0 643.1
2022 Q3 2,103 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 813 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 1,189 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,335 1 0 428.3
2021 Q2 746 2 0 2681.0
2021 Q1 182 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,414 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,787 1 0 559.6
2020 Q2 1,836 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 719 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,822 9 2 4939.6
2019 Q2 293 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 326 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 954 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,716 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,598 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 2,398 3 1 1251.0
2017 Q3 487 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 453 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 1,767 5 3 2829.7
2016 Q3 1,989 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,660 3 2 1807.2
2016 Q1 472 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,507 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,476 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 264 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 423 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,315 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 295 1 0 3389.8
2014 Q2 1,621 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,083 8 4 7386.9
2013 Q4 1,305 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 858 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,899 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 686 5 1 7288.6
2012 Q4 860 3 0 3488.4
2012 Q3 1,504 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,371 2 1 843.5
2012 Q1 586 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 0 2 0
2011 Q3 563 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 482 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 RTS Shearing

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.