Mining Incidents

Windmill Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Ronald L Follmer
Gibbon, Buffalo County, NE  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2501289

Windmill Pit 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 2014
7
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,060
proposed penalties
$1,060
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
10
inspections on record
106
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: 106 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Windmill Pit 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
7 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-01.
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 84 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,310 1 0 763.4
2025 Q2 1,021 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 276 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 501 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 220 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 219 1 0 4566.2
2024 Q1 17 0 0 0.0
Show 32 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 339 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,488 1 0 672.0
2023 Q2 159 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 39 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 75 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 23 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 12 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 100 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 751 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 142 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 230 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 3 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 368 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 440 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 52 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 78 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 703 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 401 2 1 4987.5
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 98 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 734 2 0 2724.8
2014 Q2 585 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 253 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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