Wash Plant 5 Metal/Non-Metal

Croell, Inc. · Surface

Controlled by Kurt Croell

Buffalo, Pennington County, SD · Intermittent

MSHA Mine ID: 3901598

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Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2013

citations

significant & substantial

$4,572

proposed penalties

$4,572

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	544	0	0	0.0
2025 Q3	1,487	0	0	0.0
2025 Q2	1,146	4	2	3490.4
2025 Q1	0	0	0
2024 Q4	0	0	0
2024 Q3	1,486	4	1	2691.8
2024 Q2	1,060	0	0	0.0
2023 Q4	722	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.

2 on file

August 11, 2015 SD · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY

Croell, Inc. · Contact with hot objects or substances

Welding a brace on the wash plant a hot piece of slag bounced off helmet and into the ear.

October 21, 2013 SD · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Croell, Inc. · Contact with hot objects or substances

Employee loosened radiator cap to check coolant level and burned his right hand/wrist from hot pressurized coolant.