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WOODWARD PLANT Metal/Non-Metal

Knife River Corporation-Northwest · Surface

Controlled by Knife River Corporation

Prineville, Crook County, OR · Intermittent

MSHA Mine ID: 3503478

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 7
Years on record: 2000–2007
Latest incident: Mar 2007

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

citations

significant & substantial

$13,900

proposed penalties

$13,749

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	Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4	2,521	0	0.0
2025 Q3	0	1
2025 Q2	0	0
2025 Q1	1,591	0	0.0
2024 Q2	1,189	0	0.0
2024 Q1	0	0
2023 Q4	566	1	1766.8
2023 Q3	1,564	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

7 on file

2007 · 1 incident

March 7, 2007 OR · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY

Hap Taylor & Sons · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Scraper operator jammed elbow straining shoulder while loading material into scraper.

2003 · 1 incident

August 16, 2003 OR · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Hap Taylor & Sons · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING CHANGE A BELT AND SMASHED HIS FINGER WHEN IT GOT PINCHED BETWEEN A BELT AND A ROLLER.

2002 · 1 incident

July 25, 2002 OR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE

Hap Taylor & Sons · Struck by flying object

OPERATOR WAS IN A BOBCAT SKIDLOADER & GOT WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS DUST IN HIS EYES. 2 DAYS LATER HE WENT TO DR. AND HAD A PIECE OF ROCK IN HIS EYE

2000 · 4 incidents

August 3, 2000 OR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE

Hap Taylor & Sons · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

SUBJECT STEPPED OUT OF THE BOBCAT WHILE IT WAS RUNNING. HE PLACED HIS FOOT ON BUCKET CONTROLS CAUSING THE BUCKET TO RAISE AND PIN HIM AGAINST THE MACHINE.

July 13, 2000 OR · Metal/Non-Metal drill helper MACHINERY

Hap Taylor & Sons · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

SPROCKET & TENSIONER CAME LOOSE & FELL UPON WORKER (TWO METAL PARTS FORM DRILLING MACHINE).

May 8, 2000 OR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Hap Taylor & Sons · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE LIFTING ANVILS AND FELT SHARP PAIN IN HAND.

May 8, 2000 OR · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Hap Taylor & Sons · Fall from machine

OPERATOR/ LABORER FINISHED WELDING ON ROCK TRUCK. JUMPED DOWN OFF OF TRUCK AND TWISTED KNEE WHENHE LANDED.