Mining Incidents

Waite Park Pit 059 Metal/Non-Metal

Frontenac, MN, Stearns County, MN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2103735

Waite Park Pit 059 has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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 2011
21
citations
6
significant & substantial
$3,768
proposed penalties
$3,633
paid to date
96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $135 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
17
inspections on record
103
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: 103 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Waite Park Pit 059 has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
21 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-09-22.
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 Q2 8 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 8 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 8 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 8 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 8 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 83 0 0 0.0
Show 38 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q2 805 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 16 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 16 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 16 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 8 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 16 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 16 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 8 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 919 2 0 2176.3
2020 Q2 8 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 16 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 16 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 158 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 0 0 0
2016 Q2 16 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 402 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 862 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 314 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 46 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 338 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 635 3 0 4724.4
2014 Q2 537 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 285 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 619 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 395 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 432 5 3 11574.1
2012 Q3 579 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 515 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 356 11 3 30898.9
2011 Q3 685 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 Waite Park Pit 059

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.