Mining Incidents

Wash Plant #1 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Greg Kolodziej
Alto, Kent County, MI  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4702889

Wash Plant #1 has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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 2001
20
citations
4
significant & substantial
$2,333
proposed penalties
$2,333
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
33
inspections on record
214
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: 214 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 $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
20 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-14.
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 Q4 536 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 630 2 0 3174.6
2025 Q2 600 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 406 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 664 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 659 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 509 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 559 0 0 0.0
Show 94 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 740 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 660 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 93 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 488 1 0 2049.2
2022 Q3 868 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 248 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 785 3 1 3821.7
2021 Q2 893 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 200 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 120 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 245 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 80 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 400 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 124 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 240 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 358 4 1 11173.2
2018 Q2 400 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 240 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 367 3 1 8174.4
2017 Q2 660 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 240 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 734 1 0 1362.4
2016 Q2 326 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 172 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 662 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 660 1 0 1515.2
2015 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 75 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 406 1 0 2463.1
2014 Q2 184 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 126 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 177 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 156 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 175 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 151 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 286 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 160 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 204 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 383 1 0 2611.0
2011 Q2 169 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 167 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 258 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 724 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 750 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 53 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 100 2 1 20000.0
2009 Q3 370 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 242 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 111 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 200 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 440 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 180 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 174 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 717 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 597 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 483 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 320 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 321 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 570 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 691 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 463 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 990 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 758 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 436 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 878 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 641 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 521 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 850 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 613 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 381 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 862 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 471 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 293 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 684 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 523 1 0 1912.0
2001 Q1 1,160 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,670 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,441 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 2,925 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 960 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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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.