Mining Incidents

Zumbro Falls Plant: 66 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Zumbro Falls Sand & Gravel, LLC · Surface
Controlled by Gary A Leitzen
Zumbro Falls, Olmsted County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103458

Zumbro Falls Plant has $10K 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 2006
66
citations
19
significant & substantial
$10,182
proposed penalties
$10,182
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
35
inspections on record
367
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: 367 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Zumbro Falls Plant has $10K 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
66 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-10.
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.
28.8%
significant & substantial
9.1%
high negligence or reckless
28.8%
reasonably likely or greater
57.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 10.6% low, 80.3% moderate, 9.1% 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: 2026-06-15
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-06-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-05-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-09-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.35 2.25 0.16 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-06-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.3 0.93 0.32 Complete Load-Haul-Dump
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. Zumbro Falls Sand & Gravel, LLC 2004 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 3
2022 4
2021 3
2020 2
2019 2
2018 3
2017 3
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 2
2012 1
2011 1
2010 2
2009 2
2008 2
2007 2
2006 1
2005 1
2004 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Zumbro Falls Plant sits in Olmsted County, Minnesota, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Olmsted County, Minnesota · Population 163,425
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$93,494
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 638 6 1 9404.4
2026 Q1 167 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 595 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,002 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 764 7 2 9162.3
2025 Q1 206 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 868 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 874 0 0 0.0
Show 80 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 643 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 499 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,113 2 1 1796.9
2023 Q3 917 2 0 2181.0
2023 Q2 593 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 163 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,416 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,457 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,073 2 2 1863.9
2022 Q1 205 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 997 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,137 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,257 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 521 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,311 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,059 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,455 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 122 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,038 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,132 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,042 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 165 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,716 2 0 1165.5
2018 Q3 1,817 1 0 550.4
2018 Q2 1,150 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 431 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,890 3 1 1587.3
2017 Q3 1,865 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,682 2 0 1189.1
2017 Q1 484 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,139 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,214 1 0 823.7
2016 Q2 1,163 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 420 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,206 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,170 3 1 2564.1
2015 Q2 1,148 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 128 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,252 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,044 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 960 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 49 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 946 2 1 2114.2
2013 Q3 1,040 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 378 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 440 8 2 18181.8
2012 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 80 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 420 3 1 7142.9
2011 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 520 3 0 5769.2
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 322 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 530 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 524 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 290 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 480 2 0 4166.7
2009 Q2 380 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 3 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 415 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 535 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 525 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 4 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 276 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 524 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 484 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 4 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 370 17 7 45945.9
2006 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 440 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 320 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 360 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 520 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.