Mining Incidents

Kasota Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Mankato, Blue Earth County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2102961

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2007–2023
Latest incident
Aug 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
72
citations
9
significant & substantial
$11,274
proposed penalties
$10,977
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 0 0 0
2025 Q2 113 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 771 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 123 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 532 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 5,060 4 1 790.5
2023 Q2 3,061 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 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

6 on file

2023 · 1 incident

August 17, 2023 MN · Metal/Non-Metal crusher attendant/operator, pan feeder operator/worker EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
Minnesota Paving & Materials · Struck by flying object

Employee was staged in designated safe area for blast, along with 2 other employees. When the blast was initiated, a fly rock approximately 5" x 6" x 2" struck an employee in the right hand index finger and knuckle, landing approximately 30 feet behind EE.

2021 · 1 incident

August 18, 2021 MN · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Minnesota Paving & Materials · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was replacing shanks on a loader bucket. EE got a bolt partially loose and it dropped out of square shank. EE held it up with hand and when EE hit it with the impact, it spun and cut EE's right hand.

2015 · 2 incidents

May 26, 2015 MN · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Minnesota Paving & Materials · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was cutting a piece of torn belting that was wrapped around a head pulley shaft, when the utility knife slipped. He cut the inside of his left wrist.

January 5, 2015 MN · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Minnesota Paving & Materials · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Recordable hearing loss.

2013 · 1 incident

November 23, 2013 MN · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Minnesota Paving & Materials · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was leaning over the undercarriage attempting to grab his lifting chain while installing the belly pans. EE was leaning directly over the lifting eye. He grabbed the his chain and was backing out away from the undercarriage when the lifting eye caused a contusion to his left chest area.

2007 · 1 incident

October 16, 2007 MN · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Southern Minnesota Construction Company, Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Working on a cone crusher changing liners. During a procedure of setting nuts into a tramp iron system, worker got his right hand 1st digit finger pinched setting one of the nuts.