Mining Incidents

Wash Plant 1: 7 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Lange Trenching Inc. · Surface
Avon, Stearns County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103973

Wash Plant 1 has $895 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 2020
7
citations
0
significant & substantial
$895
proposed penalties
$895
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
7
inspections on record
47
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: 47 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Wash Plant 1 has $895 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.
$895
proposed penalties
$895
current assessed
$895
paid to date
$0
outstanding
7 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-10-29.
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
57.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 42.9% low, 57.1% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Lange Trenching Inc. 2020 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
2021 1
2020 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Wash Plant 1 sits in Stearns County, Minnesota, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Stearns County, Minnesota · Population 159,358
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$76,447
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 301 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 282 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 357 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 280 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 185 1 0 5405.4
2024 Q3 345 0 0 0.0
Show 15 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 270 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 175 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 580 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 510 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 132 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 465 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 215 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 132 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 515 5 0 9708.7
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 90 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 180 1 0 5555.6

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.