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River Pit Wash Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Knife River · Surface

Controlled by Knife River Corporation

Kalispell, Flathead County, MT · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 2402110

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2000–2005
Latest incident: Sep 2005

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2001

citations

significant & substantial

$1,917

proposed penalties

$1,917

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
2008 Q2	1,331	0	0	0.0
2007 Q4	1,105	0	0	0.0
2007 Q3	2,353	1	0	425.0
2007 Q2	759	0	0	0.0
2006 Q4	776	0	0	0.0
2006 Q3	665	0	0	0.0
2005 Q4	52	1	1	19230.8
2005 Q3	2,551	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

2 on file

2005 · 1 incident

September 12, 2005 MT · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Mc Elroy & Wilken, Inc. · Struck by flying object

Dozer operator was prying a rock out of the dozer arm and track roller. When the rock came out it splintered pieces off into his right eye.

2000 · 1 incident

June 22, 2000 MT · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Mc Elroy & Wilken, Inc. · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE WAS CHANGING SCREENS ON HIS WASH PLANT WHEN HE STRAINED HIMSELF.