Mining Incidents

Wash Screw #45708: 11 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Knife River Corporation
Bemidji, Beltrami County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103642

Wash Screw #45708 has $1K 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 2010
11
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,188
proposed penalties
$1,188
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
23
inspections on record
144
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: 144 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 Screw #45708 has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
10 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-10-04.
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.
9.1%
significant & substantial
18.2%
high negligence or reckless
9.1%
reasonably likely or greater
63.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 27.3% low, 54.5% moderate, 18.2% 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: 2022-10-05, 3 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2022-10-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-09-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 0.7 0.26 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. Northstar Materials Inc dba Knife River Materials 2008 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 1
2022 3
2021 3
2020 2
2019 2
2018 3
2017 2
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 2
2012 2
2011 1
2010 1
2009 1
2008 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Wash Screw #45708 sits in Beltrami County, Minnesota, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Beltrami County, Minnesota · Population 46,421
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$67,257
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 91 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 126 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 102 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 27 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 102 0 0 0.0
Show 64 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 602 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 54 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 131 1 0 7633.6
2022 Q3 638 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 371 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 344 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,176 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 306 1 0 3268.0
2021 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 142 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 224 2 0 8928.6
2020 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 202 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 302 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 164 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,193 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 82 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 74 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 569 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 395 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 26 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 362 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 398 1 0 2512.6
2016 Q2 437 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 76 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 517 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 217 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 786 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 52 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 175 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 395 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 132 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 12 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 394 3 1 7614.2
2012 Q2 861 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 0 0 0
2011 Q3 900 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 772 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 259 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,650 2 0 1212.1
2010 Q2 504 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 613 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 302 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 100 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 296 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.