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Vanderpol Pit: 24 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Ringling Gravel & Construction LLC · Surface
Platte, Charles Mix County, SD  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3901636

Vanderpol Pit has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2019
24
citations
3
significant & substantial
$3,007
proposed penalties
$3,007
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
16
inspections on record
168
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: 168 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Vanderpol Pit has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
20 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-04-30.
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.
13.6%
significant & substantial
13.6%
high negligence or reckless
13.6%
reasonably likely or greater
68.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 13.6% low, 72.7% moderate, 13.6% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2020-09-22, 5 years ago
3
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2020-09-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-09-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2020-09-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 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. Ringling Gravel & Construction LLC 2019 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 0
2025 1
2024 1
2023 1
2022 1
2021 1
2020 1
2019 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Vanderpol Pit sits in Charles Mix County, South Dakota, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Charles Mix County, South Dakota · Population 9,281
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$64,850
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 0 0 0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 244 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 118 3 0 25423.7
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 203 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 242 0 0 0.0
Show 22 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 191 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 178 4 0 22471.9
2023 Q3 260 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 196 4 0 20408.2
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 170 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 270 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 259 4 1 15444.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 185 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 253 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 318 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 268 4 1 14925.4
2020 Q3 420 1 0 2381.0
2020 Q2 255 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 168 2 0 11904.8
2019 Q3 334 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 130 0 0 0.0
2019 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.