Mining Incidents

Washplant Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by William D Smude
117, Crow Wing County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103937

Washplant has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $124 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 2018
8
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,041
proposed penalties
$917
paid to date
88% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $124 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
11
inspections on record
99
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: 99 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 $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $124 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
$917
paid to date
$124
outstanding
8 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-07-30.
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 Q3 40 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 35 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 35 2 0 57142.9
2024 Q2 198 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 183 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 147 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 38 0 0 0.0
Show 10 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q2 139 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 31 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 63 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 4 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 344 1 0 2907.0
2020 Q2 50 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q3 93 3 0 32258.1
2019 Q2 218 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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