Mining Incidents

Ulmer Pit: 1 MSHA citation Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Floyd Obenauer
Eureka, Mcpherson County, SD  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3901420

Ulmer Pit has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $60 in penalties since 2003, with $60 outstanding.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
—
Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
1
citations
0
significant & substantial
$60
proposed penalties
$0
paid to date
0% of proposed penalties paid to date. The remaining $60 was reduced, settled, contested or is still owed.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
9
inspections on record
51
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: 51 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Ulmer Pit has $60 in proposed MSHA penalties and $60 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.
$60
proposed penalties
$60
current assessed
$0
paid to date
$60
outstanding
1 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-12-22.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
0.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Obenauer Sand & Gravel Inc 1997 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2004 1
2003 0
2002 1
2001 1
2000 1
1999 1
1998 1
1997 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Ulmer Pit sits in McPherson County, South Dakota, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
McPherson County, South Dakota · Population 2,278
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$62,024
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; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. 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
2004 Q3 30 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 35 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 0 1 0
2003 Q3 0 0 0
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 86 0 0 0.0
Show 11 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2002 Q3 136 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 36 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 76 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 40 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 44 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 196 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 109 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 94 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 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.