Mining Incidents

Portable Wash Dept 475 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Manaco Corporation
Dewitt, Clinton County, IA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1302140

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2009–2025
Latest incident
Jun 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
54
citations
5
significant & substantial
$5,975
proposed penalties
$5,975
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 256 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 595 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 60 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,021 3 0 2938.3
2024 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,577 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,249 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 5 0 0 0.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2025 · 1 incident

June 3, 2025 IA · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Wendling Quarries Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was stemming a blast hole, when EE was finished EE was using EE's foot to level it off when EE's knee gave out.

2023 · 1 incident

June 28, 2023 IA · Metal/Non-Metal washer operator, sizing operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wendling Quarries Inc · Struck by rolling or sliding object

The pipe rolled off the clean out plate striking the miner in the lower left leg causing a bruise.

2022 · 1 incident

July 27, 2022 IA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wendling Quarries Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Miner was lifting the tongue of a load out bin to hook up to a truck and strained back.

2009 · 1 incident

March 23, 2009 IA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Wendling Quarries Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

The employee lifted a screen for his wash plant on to a cutting table and felt something pop in his right arm.