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WOODWARD PLANT: 95 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Knife River Corporation
Prineville, Crook County, OR  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3503478

WOODWARD PLANT has $14K 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
7
Years on record
2000–2007
Latest incident
Mar 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
95
citations
17
significant & substantial
$13,900
proposed penalties
$13,900
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Knife River Corporation-Northwest's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
53
inspections on record
710
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: 710 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

WOODWARD PLANT has $14K 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.
$14K
proposed penalties
$14K
current assessed
$14K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
94 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-09-04.
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.
18.1%
significant & substantial
10.6%
high negligence or reckless
18.1%
reasonably likely or greater
60.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 1.1% none, 12.8% low, 75.5% moderate, 10.6% 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: 2021-10-20, 4 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
10
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg8
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (10)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2021-10-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-10-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2021-04-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-05-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-05-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-01-13 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.19 Crusher Oper/Worker
2010-01-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-02-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-02-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Scraper Operator
2004-02-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 1.94 0.12 Crusher Oper/Worker
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.

WOODWARD PLANT recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2020.

Injury rate, 2020
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.77 and the all-US-mining average was 2.08 cases per 100 workers.
In Oregon, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.93 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2000 * 33.14 24.86 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Hap Taylor & Sons 1999 to 2009
  2. Knife River Corporation-Northwest 2010 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 3
2021 8
2020 8
2019 5
2018 4
2017 4
2016 3
2015 3
2014 3
2013 3
2012 3
2011 4
2010 3
2009 3
2008 4
2007 4
2006 5
2005 6
2004 4
2003 5
2002 4
2001 5
2000 19
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

WOODWARD PLANT sits in Crook County, Oregon, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Crook County, Oregon · Population 25,651
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$81,675
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 278 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 2,521 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 147 1 0 6802.7
2025 Q2 140 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,591 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,822 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,190 0 0 0.0
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1,189 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 373 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 566 1 0 1766.8
2023 Q3 1,564 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,443 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 472 1 0 2118.6
2022 Q4 916 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,816 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,724 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,234 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 4,878 3 0 615.0
2021 Q3 6,268 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 5,217 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 556 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 5,286 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 6,721 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,829 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 4,530 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 3,219 1 0 310.7
2019 Q3 1,137 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,385 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 4,458 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 2,282 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,083 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,409 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 585 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 2,475 1 0 404.0
2017 Q3 871 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,630 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,470 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,485 1 0 673.4
2016 Q3 2,455 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 432 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 633 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 712 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 535 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 412 1 0 2427.2
2015 Q1 599 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 506 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 638 4 1 6269.6
2014 Q2 957 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 622 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 462 1 0 2164.5
2013 Q3 679 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 768 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 99 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 367 3 0 8174.4
2012 Q3 797 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 507 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 574 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 651 1 0 1536.1
2011 Q3 348 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 307 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 716 1 0 1396.6
2010 Q4 496 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 361 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 643 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 550 3 0 5454.5
2009 Q4 104 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 412 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 672 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 224 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 725 2 0 2758.6
2008 Q3 677 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,683 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,404 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,734 2 0 1153.4
2007 Q3 2,055 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 2,294 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 2,054 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 2,032 2 1 984.3
2006 Q3 2,436 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 2,733 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 2,368 7 1 2956.1
2005 Q4 2,204 1 0 453.7
2005 Q3 3,587 10 4 2787.8
2005 Q2 3,371 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,118 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,439 4 1 2779.7
2004 Q3 1,522 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,286 2 0 1555.2
2004 Q1 1,206 2 0 1658.4
2003 Q4 1,567 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,718 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 3,782 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,196 1 0 836.1
2002 Q4 1,992 10 3 5020.1
2002 Q3 2,357 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,672 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 773 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,534 3 0 1955.7
2001 Q3 1,002 10 4 9980.0
2001 Q2 1,358 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 4,560 7 0 1535.1
2000 Q4 3,594 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 7,643 1 1 130.8
2000 Q2 10,097 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 2,804 6 0 2139.8
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

7 on file

2007 · 1 incident

March 7, 2007 OR · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
Hap Taylor & Sons · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Scraper operator jammed elbow straining shoulder while loading material into scraper.

2003 · 1 incident

August 16, 2003 OR · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hap Taylor & Sons · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CHANGE A BELT AND SMASHED HIS FINGER WHEN IT GOT PINCHED BETWEEN A BELT AND A ROLLER.

2002 · 1 incident

July 25, 2002 OR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Hap Taylor & Sons · Struck by flying object

OPERATOR WAS IN A BOBCAT SKIDLOADER & GOT WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS DUST IN HIS EYES. 2 DAYS LATER HE WENT TO DR. AND HAD A PIECE OF ROCK IN HIS EYE

2000 · 4 incidents

August 3, 2000 OR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Hap Taylor & Sons · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

SUBJECT STEPPED OUT OF THE BOBCAT WHILE IT WAS RUNNING. HE PLACED HIS FOOT ON BUCKET CONTROLS CAUSING THE BUCKET TO RAISE AND PIN HIM AGAINST THE MACHINE.

July 13, 2000 OR · Metal/Non-Metal drill helper MACHINERY
Hap Taylor & Sons · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

SPROCKET & TENSIONER CAME LOOSE & FELL UPON WORKER (TWO METAL PARTS FORM DRILLING MACHINE).

May 8, 2000 OR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hap Taylor & Sons · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE LIFTING ANVILS AND FELT SHARP PAIN IN HAND.

May 8, 2000 OR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Hap Taylor & Sons · Fall from machine

OPERATOR/ LABORER FINISHED WELDING ON ROCK TRUCK. JUMPED DOWN OFF OF TRUCK AND TWISTED KNEE WHENHE LANDED.