Mining Incidents

Knife River Midwest LLC operator

Controlled by MDU Resources Group Inc
MSHA operator ID: L00546
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Mines on record
8
Years on record
1985–2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
210
citations
41
significant & substantial
$32,670
proposed penalties
$26,861
paid to date
82% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $5,809 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
169
inspections on record
1,638
inspection hours
12.8
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.
210 citations across 1,638 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$33K
proposed penalties
$27K
current assessed
$27K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
209 assessments are final orders; 17 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-06-23.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2009
2
2008
1
2006
1
2001
2
2000
1
1998
1
1995
1
1985
1

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