Mining Incidents

Stripping Crew #1 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Greg Bruening
Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1302431

Stripping Crew #1 has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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 2012
42
citations
12
significant & substantial
$19,266
proposed penalties
$18,616
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $650 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
28
inspections on record
268
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: 268 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Stripping Crew #1 has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$19K
proposed penalties
$19K
current assessed
$19K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
41 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-09.
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 3,602 1 1 277.6
2025 Q3 4,171 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,700 2 0 540.5
2025 Q1 2,180 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,328 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 4,438 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,864 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,002 0 0 0.0
Show 48 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,118 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,331 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,601 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,136 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 3,370 1 0 296.7
2022 Q3 2,129 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,421 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,211 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,610 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,413 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 4,266 11 5 2578.5
2021 Q1 2,819 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,819 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,819 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,458 9 1 3661.5
2020 Q1 3,032 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 3,085 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,800 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 3,044 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 2,118 2 0 944.3
2018 Q4 2,769 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,252 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 3,332 3 2 900.4
2018 Q1 1,955 4 2 2046.0
2017 Q4 3,560 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 4,364 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,575 2 0 559.4
2017 Q1 3,188 1 0 313.7
2016 Q4 3,489 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,992 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 3,827 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 2,289 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 3,228 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 5,223 2 1 382.9
2015 Q2 4,860 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 627 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 805 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 0 0 0
2014 Q2 4,508 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 2,555 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 4,508 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 3,760 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 3,273 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,922 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 4,845 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 5,134 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 5,535 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 506 3 0 5928.9

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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