Mining Incidents

Wash Plant #4 Metal/Non-Metal

Haas Sons Inc · Surface
Controlled by Steven Haas; Gary Haas
Thorp, Chippewa County, WI  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4703875

Wash Plant #4 has $751 in proposed MSHA penalties and $604 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 2024
5
citations
1
significant & substantial
$751
proposed penalties
$147
paid to date
20% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $604 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
8
inspections on record
89
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: 89 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 #4 has $751 in proposed MSHA penalties and $604 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.
$751
proposed penalties
$751
current assessed
$147
paid to date
$604
outstanding
1 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-12.
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 726 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,437 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 409 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 635 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,512 1 0 661.4
2024 Q2 2,050 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 68 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 953 0 0 0.0
Show 14 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 2,001 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,604 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 501 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 972 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,051 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 18 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 553 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 852 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 81 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 514 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 56 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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