Mining Incidents

First Rate Portable 6 Metal/Non-Metal

First Rate Excavate · Surface
Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, SD  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3901681

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2026
Latest incident
Mar 2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2025
2
citations
0
significant & substantial
$302
proposed penalties
$302
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 1,275 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,152 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 557 1 0 1795.3
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
2024 Q2 1,760 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

1 on file

2026 · 1 incident

March 26, 2026 SD · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
First Rate Excavate · Struck against stationary object

Miner was climbing down from a ladder on the plant, stepped on a rock or uneven surface at the bottom of the ladder and twisted EE's ankle, resulting in a fracture