Mining Incidents

Wayland Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Wayland, Allegan County, MI  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2003504

Wayland Pit has $5K 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
1
Years on record
2020
Latest incident
Jan 2020
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
36
citations
9
significant & substantial
$5,184
proposed penalties
$5,184
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
22
inspections on record
295
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: 295 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Wayland Pit has $5K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
36 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-16.
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 2,615 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,480 2 1 806.5
2025 Q2 2,295 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,971 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,755 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,962 3 2 1529.1
2024 Q2 2,058 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,115 0 0 0.0
Show 35 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,029 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,897 2 1 1054.3
2023 Q2 1,252 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,665 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,725 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,380 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,884 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,028 4 1 3891.1
2021 Q4 2,403 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,877 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 671 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,113 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,427 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,337 1 0 747.9
2020 Q2 1,322 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,130 3 0 2654.9
2019 Q4 1,326 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,270 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,503 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,747 3 0 1717.2
2018 Q4 2,753 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,476 6 1 2423.3
2018 Q2 2,254 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,663 2 0 1202.6
2017 Q4 2,678 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,496 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,098 1 1 476.6
2017 Q1 1,102 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,564 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,813 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,257 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,615 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 2,324 3 1 1290.9
2015 Q3 2,040 5 0 2451.0
2015 Q2 1,252 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2020 · 1 incident

January 21, 2020 MI · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
High Grade Materials Co · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Miner was cutting plastic with a box cutter, and the box cutter slipped out/off of the plastic, hitting the miner's hand and causing a cut on the knuckle of a finger. Miner went to Urgent Care for treatment.

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