Mining Incidents

Turkey Creek Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Kearney, Buffalo County, NE  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2501234

Turkey Creek Pit has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $592 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 2008
48
citations
18
significant & substantial
$7,935
proposed penalties
$7,343
paid to date
93% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $592 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
35
inspections on record
348
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: 348 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Turkey Creek Pit has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $592 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$592
outstanding
48 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-19.
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 1,162 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,192 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,274 1 0 784.9
2025 Q1 710 1 1 1408.5
2024 Q4 1,237 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,616 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,101 2 0 1816.5
2024 Q1 1,463 0 0 0.0
Show 65 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,178 3 1 2546.7
2023 Q3 1,496 8 4 5347.6
2023 Q2 1,633 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,533 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,745 5 1 2865.3
2022 Q3 1,808 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,728 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,674 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,920 1 0 520.8
2021 Q3 1,775 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,821 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,778 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,916 6 5 3131.5
2020 Q3 1,345 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,184 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,095 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,085 3 0 2765.0
2019 Q3 1,117 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,072 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 949 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 988 1 0 1012.1
2018 Q3 1,064 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,268 3 2 2365.9
2018 Q1 998 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,277 2 0 1566.2
2017 Q3 1,143 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,255 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,179 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,347 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,449 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,362 1 0 734.2
2016 Q1 605 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,331 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,388 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,615 1 1 619.2
2015 Q1 242 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,194 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,327 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,338 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 510 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 809 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,580 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,291 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 656 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,433 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,443 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,432 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,231 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,333 1 0 750.2
2011 Q3 1,291 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,336 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 715 2 0 2797.2
2010 Q4 1,457 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,466 1 0 682.1
2010 Q2 1,521 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 739 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,043 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,481 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,423 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 936 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,325 1 0 754.7
2008 Q3 1,500 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,344 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,083 4 3 3693.4
2007 Q4 1,651 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 Turkey Creek Pit

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.