Mining Incidents

Wash Plant & Screener: 51 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

New Ulm, Brown County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103386

Wash Plant & Screener has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2005
51
citations
14
significant & substantial
$10,382
proposed penalties
$10,382
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
31
inspections on record
329
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: 329 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 & Screener has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
51 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-10-20.
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.
27.5%
significant & substantial
5.9%
high negligence or reckless
27.5%
reasonably likely or greater
70.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 21.6% low, 72.5% moderate, 5.9% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2026-05-13
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
11
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
Show the individual readings (11)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-05-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-04-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-09-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-07-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 Crusher Oper/Worker
2015-06-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-06-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-06-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2010-06-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 1.12 0.29 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-05-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 1.3 0.13 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-05-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.35 1.11 0.32 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-05-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. M.R. Paving & Excavating, Inc. 2003 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 3
2024 3
2023 2
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 3
2012 3
2011 2
2010 1
2009 2
2008 2
2007 1
2006 2
2005 2
2004 2
2003 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Wash Plant & Screener sits in Brown County, Minnesota, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Brown County, Minnesota · Population 25,826
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$68,690
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 463 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 31 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 171 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 525 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 450 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 138 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 755 0 0 0.0
Show 81 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 616 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 364 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 338 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 278 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 663 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 300 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,206 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 557 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 295 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 682 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 778 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 11 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 215 1 0 4651.2
2020 Q3 748 2 0 2673.8
2020 Q2 504 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 323 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 647 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 549 2 0 3643.0
2019 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 190 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 378 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 235 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 105 3 1 28571.4
2017 Q3 481 3 1 6237.0
2017 Q2 462 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 142 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 507 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 495 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 136 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 544 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 436 1 1 2293.6
2015 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 198 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 590 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 713 10 2 14025.2
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 420 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 802 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 815 1 0 1227.0
2013 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 163 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 545 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 623 2 0 3210.3
2012 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 168 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 357 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 103 6 3 58252.4
2011 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 535 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1 1 0 1000000.0
2010 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 422 2 2 4739.3
2009 Q2 576 16 3 27777.8
2009 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 947 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 589 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 833 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 603 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 686 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 873 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 572 1 1 1748.3
2005 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 658 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 519 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 753 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 554 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 716 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.