Mining Incidents

Wash Plant #3-IA Metal/Non-Metal

Croell, Inc · Surface
Controlled by Kurt Croell
Tipton, IA, Cedar County, IA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1302395

Wash Plant #3-IA has $8K 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 2009
51
citations
6
significant & substantial
$7,804
proposed penalties
$7,804
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
23
inspections on record
253
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: 253 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 #3-IA has $8K 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
51 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-24.
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 1,233 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,846 2 1 1083.4
2025 Q2 1,489 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 301 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,171 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,011 3 0 2967.4
2024 Q2 1,015 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 799 0 0 0.0
Show 49 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 2,198 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,963 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 190 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 714 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 587 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,381 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 281 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,044 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,003 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 601 7 0 11647.3
2020 Q4 316 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 899 4 1 4449.4
2020 Q2 744 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 492 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 511 3 0 5870.8
2018 Q3 1,148 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,044 3 2 2873.6
2017 Q4 877 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,373 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,970 6 0 3045.7
2017 Q1 847 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 336 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,084 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 544 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 683 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 954 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 613 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 686 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 502 1 0 1992.0
2013 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 204 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 179 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,639 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 251 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,195 3 1 2510.5
2011 Q3 1,481 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,457 3 0 2059.0
2011 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,201 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,717 8 0 4659.3
2010 Q2 550 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 68 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,020 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,096 7 1 6386.9
2009 Q2 1,064 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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