Mining Incidents

Wash Plant: 21 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Hermantown, St Louis County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103460

Wash Plant has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $302 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 2007
21
citations
7
significant & substantial
$2,808
proposed penalties
$2,506
paid to date
89% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $302 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2007
23
inspections on record
115
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: 115 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 has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $302 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
$302
outstanding
21 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-02.
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.
33.3%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
33.3%
reasonably likely or greater
66.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 23.8% low, 76.2% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Northland Crushing, Inc. 2004 to 2014
  2. Northland Constructors 2014 to 2023
  3. Northland Constrs. of Duluth 2023 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2022 0
2021 0
2020 0
2019 1
2018 2
2017 1
2016 1
2015 1
2014 1
2013 2
2012 1
2011 1
2010 1
2009 0
2008 1
2007 0
2006 1
2005 0
2004 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Wash Plant sits in St. Louis County, Minnesota, where the Census mining category is 2.3% 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.
St. Louis County, Minnesota · Population 200,056
2.3%
Mining share of county employment
$69,455
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 523 2 0 3824.1
2026 Q1 136 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 205 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 204 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 363 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 128 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 119 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
Show 68 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q2 0 0 0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q3 0 0 0
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 28 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 0 0 0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 416 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 813 5 0 6150.1
2018 Q2 347 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 192 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 552 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 441 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 681 3 1 4405.3
2016 Q2 211 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 264 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 547 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 351 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 737 1 1 1356.9
2014 Q3 885 2 1 2259.9
2014 Q2 348 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 132 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 76 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 239 3 1 12552.3
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 436 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 590 1 0 1694.9
2012 Q2 100 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 375 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,045 1 0 956.9
2011 Q2 219 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 14 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 169 1 1 5917.2
2010 Q2 453 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 182 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 0 1 1
2009 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 0 0 0
2008 Q2 656 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 0 0 0
2006 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q3 610 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 0 0 0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 0 0 0
2005 Q3 0 0 0
2005 Q2 0 0 0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 31 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 354 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.