Verdendrye Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Strata Corp · Surface

Controlled by Knife River Corporation

Emerado, Grand Forks County, ND · Intermittent

MSHA Mine ID: 3200386

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Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

citations

significant & substantial

$4,011

proposed penalties

$4,011

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	1,287	0	0	0.0
2025 Q3	2,148	0	0	0.0
2025 Q2	1,582	0	0	0.0
2025 Q1	0	0	0
2024 Q4	1,448	0	0	0.0
2024 Q3	739	0	0	0.0
2024 Q2	4,017	2	1	497.9
2024 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.

3 on file

October 17, 2012 ND · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE

Strata Corp · Struck against a moving object

Alleged back strain from loader seat, loader hit a bump.

September 22, 2008 ND · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer OTHER

Strata Corp · Unclassified, insufficient data

Employee alleges non-specific right arm pain with no cause given.

September 2, 2003 ND · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner OTHER

Strata Corp · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

FATAL HEART ATTACK, HISTORY OF HEART PROBLEMS , WAS TAKING NITRO TABLETS.