Mason City Plant safety activity
MSHA violations, accident reports and inspections.
Safety activity
Slip or fall of person
Days away from work only
Accident narrative
EE fell down an undetermined amount of stairs below the kiln feed area. The worker received multiple lacerations to head and nose requiring extensive care. Also informed late evening at the ER that there was a crack on one or both sides of vertebrae.
Compliance Follow-up Inspection
10.5 on-site hours reported
Verbal Hazard Complaint Inspections
2.5 on-site hours reported
Spot Inspection
1.0 on-site hours reported
Examination of working places.
30 CFR 56.18002(a) · Significant and substantial (S&S) · $9,757.00 proposed penalty
Bins, hoppers, silos, tanks, and surge piles.
30 CFR 56.16002(c) · Significant and substantial (S&S) · $9,757.00 proposed penalty
Compliance Follow-up Inspection
0.5 on-site hours reported
Exposure limits for airborne contaminants.
30 CFR 56.5001(a)/56.5005 · $151.00 proposed penalty
Exposure limits for airborne contaminants.
30 CFR 56.5001(a)/56.5005 · $883.00 proposed penalty
Requirement for container labels.
30 CFR 47.41(a) · $697.00 proposed penalty
Operators stations.
30 CFR 56.14103(b) · $5,144.00 proposed penalty
Operators stations.
30 CFR 56.14103(b) · $5,144.00 proposed penalty
Slip or fall of person
Days away from work only
Accident narrative
A maintenance millwright was walking down the stairs in the raw mill from the 1 1/2 floor and fell down the stairs hurting EE's knee.
Inspection.
30 CFR 56.4201(b) · $165.00 proposed penalty
Horns and backup alarms.
30 CFR 56.14132(a) · $3,184.00 proposed penalty
Inspection.
30 CFR 56.4201(a)(2) · $151.00 proposed penalty
Electrical conductors.
30 CFR 56.12004 · $2,133.00 proposed penalty
Housekeeping.
30 CFR 56.20003(a) · $1,037.00 proposed penalty
Insulation and fittings for power wires and cables.
30 CFR 56.12008 · $2,133.00 proposed penalty
Protection of gas cylinder valves.
30 CFR 56.16006 · $1,968.00 proposed penalty
Inspection and cover plates.
30 CFR 56.12032 · $1,550.00 proposed penalty
Electrical conductors.
30 CFR 56.12004 · $2,133.00 proposed penalty
Housekeeping.
30 CFR 56.20003(c) · $592.00 proposed penalty
Inspection and cover plates.
30 CFR 56.12032 · $697.00 proposed penalty
Spillage and leakage.
30 CFR 56.4102 · $2,503.00 proposed penalty
Sources and definitions
MSHA Violations (issue date), Accidents (accident date) and Inspections (begin date).
Violation titles use current CFR headings to identify the cited rule; they are not the inspector’s account of what happened.
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.