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State Shale Pit #2: 40 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Bulk Transport Company East, Inc. · Surface
Rapid City, Pennington County, SD  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3901500

State Shale Pit #2 has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2007
Latest incident
Jan 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
40
citations
7
significant & substantial
$12,591
proposed penalties
$12,091
paid to date
96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $500 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
54
inspections on record
515
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: 515 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

State Shale Pit #2 has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 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.
$13K
proposed penalties
$12K
current assessed
$12K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
40 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
Of $9K in penalties contested before the Commission, $8K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-01-23.
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.
17.5%
significant & substantial
15.0%
high negligence or reckless
17.5%
reasonably likely or greater
37.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 15.0% low, 70.0% moderate, 15.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
5 citations taken to the federal commission · 13% of citations on record
  • Settled 5 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 4 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
6%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$9K proposed, $8K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2011-09-12.
Contested penalties
ⓘ A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
CENT 2011-593M Settlement Tureck 2011 $4K → $4K
CENT 2011-1207M Settlement Miller 2012 $2K → $2K
CENT 2011-1084M Settlement Miller 2012 $2K → $2K
CENT 2011-594M Settlement Manning 2011 $100 → $100
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2026-07-28
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
15
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg11
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz3
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (15)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-07-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 1.54 0.21 Bulldozer Operator
2025-09-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Scraper Operator
2025-09-17 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.35 Bulldozer Operator
2023-01-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-01-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2023-01-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-12-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-02-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-11-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2009-09-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2007-03-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2007-03-08 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.16 Front-end Loader Operator
2006-01-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-03-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-03-23 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.19 Front-end Loader 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. Bulk Transport Company West, Inc. 2004 to 2025
  2. Bulk Transport Company East, Inc. 2025 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 3
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 3
2018 2
2017 2
2016 3
2015 3
2014 2
2013 2
2012 2
2011 2
2010 2
2009 2
2008 3
2007 2
2006 3
2005 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

State Shale Pit #2 sits in Pennington County, South Dakota, where the Census mining category is 0.9% 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.
Pennington County, South Dakota · Population 112,081
0.9%
Mining share of county employment
$70,768
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 1,288 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1,414 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 1,484 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,516 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,213 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,313 3 0 2284.8
2024 Q4 1,331 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,354 0 0 0.0
Show 78 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1,337 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,083 3 0 2770.1
2023 Q4 1,242 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,250 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,558 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,834 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,211 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,331 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,177 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,022 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,205 1 0 829.9
2021 Q3 1,149 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 949 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 877 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 718 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 924 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 933 1 0 1071.8
2020 Q1 1,257 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,313 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,462 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,714 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,308 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 935 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,665 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,406 7 1 4978.7
2018 Q1 1,019 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 731 1 0 1368.0
2017 Q3 790 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 731 2 0 2736.0
2017 Q1 964 1 0 1037.3
2016 Q4 781 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 985 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,169 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,027 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 862 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 980 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,025 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 747 4 2 5354.8
2014 Q4 350 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 778 1 0 1285.3
2014 Q2 593 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 662 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 560 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 555 1 0 1801.8
2013 Q2 658 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 563 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 592 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 639 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 682 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 540 1 0 1851.9
2011 Q4 679 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 641 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 699 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 620 5 4 8064.5
2010 Q4 935 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,499 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 865 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 790 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,184 2 0 1689.2
2009 Q3 739 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 628 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 893 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,414 1 0 707.2
2008 Q3 831 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,109 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,397 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,088 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,176 1 0 850.3
2007 Q2 1,045 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,000 3 0 3000.0
2006 Q4 1,144 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,185 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,118 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,430 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 2,161 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 3,283 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 2,571 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 692 2 0 2890.2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2007 · 1 incident

January 30, 2007 SD · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Bulk Transport Company West, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

He was removing a skid plate under oil pan on crawler when skid plate dropped and pinched his thumb between skid plate and valve.