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: 393 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘA Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2021-03-11.
On record since 2021.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
Wann Plant has $10K 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
39 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-05.
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.
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: 2024-09-26
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
13
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg7
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Arsenic fumes1
Beryllium fumes1
Show the individual readings (25)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2024-09-26
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2024-09-26
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2024-09-26
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dredge/Barge Operator
2024-09-26
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.63
Mechanic
2020-05-27
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Washer Operator
2020-05-27
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Mechanic
2018-05-03
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.5
Front-end Loader Operator
2018-05-03
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.56
10
0.06
Welder, etc.
2018-02-21
Lead fumes
0
150
0.00
Welder, etc.
2018-02-21
Magnesium oxide fumes
0
10
0.00
Welder, etc.
2018-02-21
Molybdenum fumes
0
10
0.00
Welder, etc.
2018-02-21
Nickel fumes
0
1
0.00
Welder, etc.
2018-02-21
Vanadium fumes
0
50
0.00
Welder, etc.
2018-02-21
Zinc oxide fumes
0
5
0.00
Welder, etc.
2018-02-21
Manganese fumes
0.05
5
0.01
Welder, etc.
2018-02-21
Arsenic fumes
0
500
0.00
Welder, etc.
2018-02-21
Beryllium fumes
0
2
0.00
Welder, etc.
2018-02-21
Cadmium oxide fumes
0
100
0.00
Welder, etc.
2018-02-21
Chromium, insoluble
0.01
1
0.01
Welder, etc.
2018-02-21
Cobalt fumes
0
100
0.00
Welder, etc.
2018-02-21
Copper fumes
1.85
100
0.02
Welder, etc.
2018-02-21
Iron oxide fumes
0.68
10
0.07
Welder, etc.
2017-06-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2015-06-30
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.35
1.73
0.20
Washer Operator
2015-06-30
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dredge/Barge 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.
Wann Plant recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2017.
Injury rate, 2017
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.99 and the all-US-mining average was 2.48 cases per 100 workers.
In Nebraska, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.28 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
10
2025
8
2024
7
2023
6
2022
7
2021
9
2020
8
2019
8
2018
8
2017
11
2016
8
2015
7
2014
5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Wann Plant sits in Saunders County, Nebraska, where the Census mining category is 0.6% 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.
Saunders County, Nebraska · Population 22,761
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$89,395
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
4,267
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
5,651
1
0
177.0
2025 Q4
4,780
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
3,034
7
0
2307.2
2025 Q2
3,940
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
3,799
1
0
263.2
2024 Q4
4,002
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
3,641
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
3,434
1
0
291.2
2024 Q1
2,677
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
2,724
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
2,765
1
0
361.7
2023 Q2
3,723
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
2,678
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
3,518
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
3,969
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
4,270
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
2,978
0
0
0.0
2021 Q4
4,544
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
4,859
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
4,499
0
0
0.0
2021 Q1
4,102
3
1
731.4
2020 Q4
3,640
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
3,804
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
3,969
3
0
755.9
2020 Q1
3,389
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
3,658
3
3
820.1
2019 Q3
4,152
0
0
0.0
2019 Q2
4,648
3
0
645.4
2019 Q1
3,720
2
0
537.6
2018 Q4
4,998
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
4,111
0
0
0.0
2018 Q2
3,978
2
1
502.8
2018 Q1
3,142
2
0
636.5
2017 Q4
3,644
0
0
0.0
2017 Q3
6,033
0
0
0.0
2017 Q2
6,593
0
0
0.0
2017 Q1
6,319
1
0
158.3
2016 Q4
4,238
0
0
0.0
2016 Q3
5,634
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
3,996
0
0
0.0
2016 Q1
3,314
1
0
301.8
2015 Q4
3,983
0
0
0.0
2015 Q3
5,343
0
0
0.0
2015 Q2
4,602
2
0
434.6
2015 Q1
1,559
0
0
0.0
2014 Q4
2,254
0
0
0.0
2014 Q3
2,322
5
1
2153.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
7 on file
2026 · 1 incident
January 12, 2026NE · Metal/Non-Metalassistant mine foreman, assistant mine managerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
The employee picked up one end of a small piece of steel dredge pipe located toward the front of their pickup bed and slid it toward the rear of the truck near the tailgate so it could be removed by a forklift. After setting the pipe down near the tailgate, the employee experienced back pain and was determined to have sustained a back strain.
2023 · 1 incident
August 3, 2023NE · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
The employee was lifting a full box of copy paper from on top of a desk in order to move it to the floor. When they went to set the box of paper down on the floor, they felt a pop in their left shoulder.
2021 · 2 incidents
August 11, 2021NE · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Employee was using a pocket knife to cut a zip tie from underneath a wheel loader, while performing an oil change, and the knife slipped and cut EE's left index finger.
February 11, 2021NE · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Employee was working in the shop on lining a chute with polyurethane sheet material. While fitting a piece of the polyurethane into the chute, the employee was using a utility knife to trim one of the edges of sheet when the utility knife slipped and cut the employee's right index finger and part of EE's palm.
2020 · 1 incident
April 28, 2020NE · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Employee was starting preshift inspection of the plant and tripped over a fire hose that the employee had left on the ground the day before and sprained left ankle.
2015 · 1 incident
July 16, 2015NE · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerPOWERED HAULAGE
Employee with an undisclosed history of back problems began complaining of back pain at the end of his shift on 7/16/15. Employee spent duration of shift loading trucks using a loader under normal conditions. There are no noteworthy factors contributing to this incident except normal loader operation in combination with employee's previously undisclosed history of back problems.
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