MINE DETAILS
Blue Rapids Mine and Mill
MSHA MINE ID1400309
LOCATION
Mine location
1 of 1 mine with usable MSHA coordinates. Select a marker to open a mine.
Mine coordinates
- Blue Rapids Mine and Mill39.70694, -96.64694Open map ↗
Quarterly trends
2025 Q1 – 2026 Q4
Database snapshot · 2026-10-13. MSHA quarterly production and employment reports.
Coal production
0reported short tons
Hours worked
123,958reported employee hours
Tons per hour
0.00production ÷ hours worked
Missing values appear as —. Totals use available reports. Tons per hour requires production and hours for the same quarters and a nonzero hours total. * Striped bars mark partial mine coverage or an incomplete quarter. See the table for coverage.
Quarterly data and reporting coverage
| Quarter | Coal (short tons) | Hours worked | Tons / hour | Avg. employees | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q1 | 0 | 22,833 | 0.00 | 33 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q2 | 0 | 22,565 | 0.00 | 33 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q3 | 0 | 19,445 | 0.00 | 32 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q4 | 0 | 20,381 | 0.00 | 35 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q1 | 0 | 19,965 | 0.00 | 33 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q2 | 0 | 18,769 | 0.00 | 31 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q3 | — | — | — | — | No report |
| 2026 Q4 | — | — | — | — | No report |
Safety and enforcement
2025-01-01 – 2026-10-13
Violations
494 significant & substantial (S&S)
Accident records
30 records classified as fatality
Proposed penalties · USD
18,216.0049 of 49 violations with amounts
On-site inspection hours
206.7511 inspections · 11 with hours
Counts are published records, including contractor records. * The quarter was incomplete at the snapshot date; recent counts may rise as reports arrive. — means no reported amount or hours. Portfolio totals use current membership.
Quarterly safety data
| Quarter | Violations | S&S | Proposed USD | Accident records | Fatality records | Inspections | On-site hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-Q1 | 2 | 0 | 302.00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20.0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 12 | 2 | 3,809.00 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 47.5 |
| 2025-Q3 | 5 | 0 | 980.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13.8 |
| 2025-Q4 | 13 | 0 | 2,889.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 41.0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 14 | 2 | 9,757.00 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 41.0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 2 | 0 | 302.00 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 24.5 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 177.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19.0 |
| 2026-Q4 * | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Most cited CFR sections
All violations issued in the selected period. Counts combine subsections.
Safety activity
57.14206(b) · $177.00 proposed
Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 19.0 on-site hours
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
Accident narrative
Miner reported that their shoulder was hurting and believes it was from swinging a sledge hammer while changing out the pins on the stab shoe.
57.4200(b)(2) · $151.00 proposed
57.4260(c) · $151.00 proposed
Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 23.5 on-site hours
POWERED HAULAGE · NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
Accident narrative
Had an underground master equipment operator sustain a laceration to their ear while traveling under a drive through curtain. Curtain was torn at bottom and made contact with EE's ear while traveling under.
Compliance Follow-up Inspection · 1.0 on-site hours
Compliance Follow-up Inspection · 0.8 on-site hours
Compliance Follow-up Inspection · 0.0 on-site hours
49.6(b)(1) · $288.00 proposed
57.14209(b) · $151.00 proposed
57.18002(a) · S&S · $1,679.00 proposed
57.11001 · S&S · $5,574.00 proposed
57.14100(b) · $151.00 proposed
57.12004 · $336.00 proposed
57.12008 · $336.00 proposed
47.44(b) · $151.00 proposed
57.12025 · $151.00 proposed
57.12002 · $336.00 proposed
57.4262 · $151.00 proposed
57.14207 · $151.00 proposed
57.4601 · $151.00 proposed
57.14205 · $151.00 proposed
Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 40.3 on-site hours
Safety sources and definitions
MSHA Violations (issue date), Accidents (accident date), and Inspections (begin date). Snapshot 2026-10-13.
Counts describe published rows, including contractor records; accident records are not distinct incidents or numbers of people injured.
Zero means no matching records in the imported sources, not proof of no events. Historical coverage differs by source; absence before a source begins reporting is not a zero incident rate. Invalid or absent dates and records after the snapshot are excluded.
S&S means SIG_SUB=Y. Fatality records use DEGREE_INJURY_CD=01. Proposed penalties are not final assessed or paid amounts; missing dollar values are omitted.
Inspection hours are SUM_TOTAL_ON_SITE_HOURS attributed to the inspection start date, without supervisor/trainee hours. Missing hours are omitted; a started inspection may still be open.
Portfolio totals use current mine membership, including events before the current owner or operator's tenure.
CFR headings link to the current Title 30 index; they are not historical legal determinations.
OWNERSHIP
Operator and controller history
Current ownership comes from MSHA Mines. Historical start and end dates come from MSHA Controller and Operator History.
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Koch Industries InccontrolsGP Industrial Plasters LLCoperatesBlue Rapids Mine and Mill
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 1400309—
Koch Industries InccontrolsGeorgia-Pacific Gypsum LLCoperatesBlue Rapids Mine and Mill
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 1400309—
Koch Industries InccontrolsGeorgia-PacificoperatesBlue Rapids Mine and Mill
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 1400309—
Georgia Pacific CorpcontrolsGeorgia-PacificoperatesBlue Rapids Mine and Mill
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 1400309Other historical summaries · source-specific periods
RECORD SUMMARY
Production, safety and enforcement
These summaries use the periods stated on each card, independently of the reporting period above.
01 / SAFETYwatch
Accidents and injuries
29 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 8 lost days across the published record.
ACCIDENT + INJURY RECORD7 since 2021
accidentsmine-production-quarterly02 / COMPLIANCEwatch
Violations and penalties
481 violation rows across the full record; 70 carry an S&S flag and $117,011 appears in current assessed amounts.
ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY118 since 2021
inspectionsviolationsassessed-violationsorders-107a03 / HEALTHwatch
Occupational health samples
200 personal; 11 area. 18 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 noise rows have an action-level or PEL dose above 100%. These are separate measures, not a silica exceedance count. Silica results and sample status are shown separately.
OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE211 samples
personal-health-samplesarea-samples04 / PRODUCTIONcontext
Quarterly production and employment
19K employee hours and 31 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
2026-Q20 tons
mine-production-quarterlymine-production-yearly05 / LEGALwatch
Contests, conferences and decisions
23 contested-violation rows, 23 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 14 conference records linked by issuance number.
POST-ISSUANCE LIFECYCLE60 linked rows
conferencescontested-violationscivil-penalty-dockets-decisions06 / CONTRACTORScontext
Contractors
Contractors are linked through this mine’s violation or accident records. Their production and hours cover all their operations, so they are not included in this mine’s totals.
ENTITY-LEVEL CONTEXT4 linked entities
contractor-production-quarterlycontractor-production-yearlyaccidentsviolations07 / INSPECTIONScontext
Inspections
161 inspection events and 5K published inspection hours across the historical record.
OVERSIGHT COVERAGE37 since 2021
inspectionsviolationsHEALTH SAMPLING
Silica and quartz
Coal quartz, metal/nonmetal personal samples and area samples. Snapshot Oct 13, 2026. 7 silica records across the mine’s published history.
Personal silica samples · concentration / limit
Quarterly mean · published C/E ratio
— No eligible measurements. * Quarter in progress. Means describe the available samples, not average exposure across the mine.
Quartz % is the sample’s quartz content; µg/m³ is its reported concentration. Personal C/E is the ratio to the limit published with that sample. Personal and area concentration units and void status are not specified in those source files.
| Date / sample | Dataset / analyte | Occupation / area | Measurement | Sample status | Published action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 000000202603003600 | Metal/nonmetal personalQuartz, respirable, >1% Qtz | Crusher Oper/Worker | 0× published limitConcentration: 0000.17 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified | Not reported | NO ACTIONInspection F04DD80 |
Sources and interpretation
- Coal means use numeric concentrations from samples marked not voided, excluding control/invalid sample types and dates after the snapshot. Missing values remain null; reported zeroes remain zero.
- Quarterly means describe available samples, not mine-wide or worker-average exposure. Quarters with no eligible measurements remain empty; the current quarter is partial.
- Personal C/E is MSHA's published concentration-to-limit ratio. A value above 1 is not by itself a citation or a determination under the 2024 silica rule. Personal and area files do not publish a void-status field.
- Area records include bulk-dust analyses and are kept separate from personal exposure results. Their concentration units are not specified in the source dictionary.
- Missing samples do not establish safe conditions. Coal quartz percentage and concentration are separate measures. No compliance threshold is inferred for coal samples.
Coal quartz field definitions ↗Metal/nonmetal personal field definitions ↗Metal/nonmetal area field definitions ↗
EIA + TITLE 30
EIA production and cited regulations
EIA annual figures are reported separately from MSHA. Regulation links use the current eCFR snapshot.
Not present in the 2024 EIA coal workbook.
This can mean the operation is non-coal, inactive for the annual period, or outside the EIA-7A reporting population.
30 CFR 57.14206Securing movable parts.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.4200General requirements.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.4260Underground self-propelled equipment.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 49.6Equipment and maintenance requirements.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.14209Safety procedures for towing.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.18002Examination of working places.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.11001Safe access.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.14100Safety defects; examination, correction and records.1 recent row ↗
RECENT PUBLIC RECORDS
Recent violations and samples
Latest records retained for inspection; aggregates above use the full source history.
521148357.14206(b)Citation
504688857.4200(b)(2)Citation
504688757.4260(c)Citation
504284449.6(b)(1)Citation
504284357.14209(b)Citation
504284257.18002(a)S&S
504284157.11001S&S
504284057.14100(b)Citation
Coal dust, noise and other contaminants. Silica records above ↑
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% QtzCont. Miner Operator
C/E: 00.03Concentration: 0000.26 · limit: 0010.00Source unit unspecified
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% QtzTruck Driver
C/E: 00.03Concentration: 0000.28 · limit: 0010.00Source unit unspecified
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% QtzMechanic
C/E: 00.04Concentration: 0000.37 · limit: 0010.00Source unit unspecified
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% QtzRoof Bolter, Rock
C/E: 00.09Concentration: 0000.85 · limit: 0010.00Source unit unspecified
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% QtzTruck Driver
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.16 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% QtzTruck Driver
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.18 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% QtzCont. Miner Operator
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.67 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% QtzRoof Bolter, Rock
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0001.73 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
SOURCE COVERAGE
Reporting dates and coverage
16 datasets contain linked records. Missing datasets are listed below.
DATASETROWSWINDOWSTATUS
Accident, Injuries, and Illnessessafety · contractors29Mar 11, 2000—Jun 16, 2026mine-keyed
Addresses of Recordidentity · logistics1Mar 21, 1973—Mar 21, 1973mine-keyed
Assessed Violationscompliance · legal466Jan 25, 2000—Jul 22, 2026mine-keyed
Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisionscompliance · legal23May 14, 2009—Jul 29, 2015mine-keyed
Coal Dust Sampleshealth · safety—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Conferencescompliance · legal14Dec 16, 2003—Apr 2, 2024mine-keyed
Contested Violationscompliance · legal23Feb 26, 2008—Oct 16, 2014mine-keyed
Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterlycontractors · production · safety334Not published—Not publishedentity-linked
Contractor Employment and Production — Yearlycontractors · production · safety68Not published—Not publishedentity-linked
Controller and Operator Historyidentity · compliance4Jan 1, 1950—Aug 1, 2017mine-keyed
Mine Employment and Production — Quarterlyproduction · safety · compliance345Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Mine Employment and Production — Yearlyproduction · safety · compliance87Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Inspectionssafety · compliance161Jan 24, 2000—Jul 20, 2026mine-keyed
Minesidentity · production · logistics1Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Metal and Nonmetal Area Sampleshealth · safety11Sep 10, 2003—May 29, 2024mine-keyed
Metal and Nonmetal Personal Health Sampleshealth · safety200Aug 30, 2000—Jul 22, 2026mine-keyed
Noise Sampleshealth · safety · equipment—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Quartz Samples — Coalhealth · safety—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Violationscompliance · safety · legal481Jan 25, 2000—Jul 22, 2026mine-keyed
107(a) Orders Issuedsafety · compliance—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
NOTES
Limitations
- Contractor production is entity-level and is never represented as mine-attributable.
- Missing rows can mean no event, publication delay, identity mismatch, or inapplicability.