Mining Incidents

Washplant: 25 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Robert Berttunen
Menahga, Wadena County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103164

Washplant has $3K 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 2001
25
citations
4
significant & substantial
$2,986
proposed penalties
$2,986
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
33
inspections on record
194
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: 194 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Washplant has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
25 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-25.
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.
16.0%
significant & substantial
4.0%
high negligence or reckless
16.0%
reasonably likely or greater
56.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 20.0% low, 76.0% moderate, 4.0% 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: 2024-07-02
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
5
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (5)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-07-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-11-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.91 0.16 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-09-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 0.96 0.23 Washer Operator
2001-05-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2001-05-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.5 0.34 Washer 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. Menahga Concrete Products, Inc. 1998 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 2
2024 2
2023 3
2022 1
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
2016 2
2015 3
2014 2
2013 2
2012 2
2011 4
2010 2
2009 2
2008 2
2007 3
2006 2
2005 2
2004 3
2003 2
2002 2
2001 2
2000 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Washplant sits in Wadena County, Minnesota, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Wadena County, Minnesota · Population 14,135
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$56,882
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 461 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 539 1 0 1855.3
2025 Q3 654 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 418 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 498 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 558 2 0 3584.2
Show 96 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 571 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 510 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 629 1 0 1589.8
2023 Q2 206 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q3 724 1 0 1381.2
2022 Q2 350 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 393 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 320 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 382 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 348 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 657 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 384 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 331 1 0 3021.1
2019 Q3 872 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 656 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 323 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 814 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 443 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 507 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 648 3 1 4629.6
2017 Q2 533 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 4 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 640 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 496 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 392 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 5 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 503 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,030 1 0 970.9
2015 Q2 621 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 242 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 706 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 650 3 1 4615.4
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 462 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 348 3 0 8620.7
2013 Q2 191 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 281 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 481 3 0 6237.0
2012 Q2 502 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 41 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 222 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 322 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 276 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 51 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 436 1 1 2293.6
2010 Q3 690 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 397 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 3 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 424 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 657 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 434 2 1 4608.3
2009 Q1 3 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 166 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 524 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 462 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 182 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 223 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 158 1 0 6329.1
2007 Q1 4 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 371 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 211 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 886 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 395 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,010 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 528 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 738 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,265 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,368 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 44 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 552 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 849 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 748 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 435 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 873 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 444 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 618 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,118 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 710 2 0 2816.9
2001 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 442 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 845 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 732 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.