Mining Incidents

Wash Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Merrill, WI, Lincoln County, WI  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4703244

Wash Plant has $1K 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
12
citations
3
significant & substantial
$1,029
proposed penalties
$1,029
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
249
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: 249 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 $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
12 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-06-16.
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 176 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 281 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 190 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 365 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 608 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 329 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
Show 95 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 301 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 439 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 385 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 210 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 593 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 196 1 0 5102.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 244 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 565 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 479 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 341 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 659 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 289 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 229 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 482 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 177 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 237 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 526 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 226 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 224 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 572 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 325 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 273 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 547 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 401 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 176 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 421 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 432 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 368 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 541 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 444 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 378 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 620 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 387 1 0 2584.0
2013 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 350 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 612 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 673 1 0 1485.9
2012 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 416 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 656 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 226 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 229 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 634 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 433 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 434 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 697 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 485 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 159 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 532 1 0 1879.7
2008 Q2 231 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 62 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 331 2 0 6042.3
2007 Q2 556 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 276 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 763 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 217 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 157 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 703 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 574 2 1 3484.3
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 78 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 327 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 208 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 61 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 261 2 0 7662.8
2003 Q2 254 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 75 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 410 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 351 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 48 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 222 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 128 2 2 15625.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 19 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 135 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 71 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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The full compliance file on Wash Plant

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.