MINE DETAILS
Morton Salt Fairport Mine
MSHA MINE ID3301993
LOCATION
Mine location
1 of 1 mine with usable MSHA coordinates. Select a marker to open a mine.
Mine coordinates
- Morton Salt Fairport Mine41.75444, -81.28417Open 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
359,079reported 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 | 61,721 | 0.00 | 101 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q2 | 0 | 56,474 | 0.00 | 104 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q3 | 0 | 60,503 | 0.00 | 111 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q4 | 0 | 59,291 | 0.00 | 110 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q1 | 0 | 63,969 | 0.00 | 110 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q2 | 0 | 57,121 | 0.00 | 109 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q3 | — | — | — | — | No report |
| 2026 Q4 | — | — | — | — | No report |
Safety and enforcement
2025-01-01 – 2026-10-13
Violations
480 significant & substantial (S&S)
Accident records
280 records classified as fatality
Proposed penalties · USD
7,342.0048 of 48 violations with amounts
On-site inspection hours
609.2510 inspections · 10 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 | 7 | 0 | 1,057.00 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 136.8 |
| 2025-Q2 | 8 | 0 | 1,208.00 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 90.0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 5 | 0 | 755.00 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 82.3 |
| 2025-Q4 | 8 | 0 | 1,208.00 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 121.8 |
| 2026-Q1 | 7 | 0 | 1,057.00 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 52.5 |
| 2026-Q2 | 4 | 0 | 604.00 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 49.3 |
| 2026-Q3 | 9 | 0 | 1,453.00 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 76.8 |
| 2026-Q4 * | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Most cited CFR sections
All violations issued in the selected period. Counts combine subsections.
Safety activity
HOISTING · ACCIDENT ONLY
Accident narrative
Power lost due to storms causing the production hoist to be unavailable.
HOISTING · ACCIDENT ONLY
Accident narrative
NDT results indicated the service hoist ropes met retirement criteria.
HOISTING · ACCIDENT ONLY
Accident narrative
Electrical connection to the hoist failed causing the hoist to be inoperable.
Verbal Hazard Complaint Inspections · 3.8 on-site hours
57.19066 · $151.00 proposed
57.20032 · $151.00 proposed
57.14207 · $151.00 proposed
57.20003(a) · $151.00 proposed
57.12002 · $151.00 proposed
57.4104(a) · $151.00 proposed
57.12030 · $151.00 proposed
57.4104(b) · $151.00 proposed
57.3200 · $245.00 proposed
HOISTING · ACCIDENT ONLY
Accident narrative
Utility power outage caused the production hoist to be unavailable.
Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 73.0 on-site hours
HOISTING · ACCIDENT ONLY
Accident narrative
Utility power outage caused the production hoist to be unavailable.
HOISTING · ACCIDENT ONLY
Accident narrative
The hoist operator reported the hoist was inoperable.
HOISTING · ACCIDENT ONLY
Accident narrative
While operating hoist in automatic mode, the hoist stopped and the operator couldn't get the hoist to move.
HOISTING · ACCIDENT ONLY
Accident narrative
While performing rope NDT, rope met retirement criteria.
57.4260(a) · $151.00 proposed
Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 49.3 on-site hours
57.3200 · $151.00 proposed
47.44(b) · $151.00 proposed
57.12032 · $151.00 proposed
HOISTING · ACCIDENT ONLY
Accident narrative
The final stop switch on the Koepe faulted. Evacuation was canceled.
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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SCIH Salt Holdings, InccontrolsMorton Salt IncoperatesMorton Salt Fairport Mine
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 3301993—
K+S AktiengesellschaftcontrolsMorton Salt IncoperatesMorton Salt Fairport Mine
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 3301993—
K+S AktiengesellschaftcontrolsMorton Salt Div/Morton International IncoperatesMorton Salt Fairport Mine
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 3301993—
Dow Chemical CompanycontrolsMorton Salt Div/Morton International IncoperatesMorton Salt Fairport Mine
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 3301993—
Rohm & Haas CompanycontrolsMorton Salt Div/Morton International IncoperatesMorton Salt Fairport Mine
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 3301993—
Morton International InccontrolsMorton Salt DivisionoperatesMorton Salt Fairport Mine
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 3301993Other 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
324 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 3,830 lost days across the published record.
ACCIDENT + INJURY RECORD67 since 2021
accidentsmine-production-quarterly02 / COMPLIANCEwatch
Violations and penalties
1,349 violation rows across the full record; 205 carry an S&S flag and $500,975 appears in current assessed amounts.
ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY161 since 2021
inspectionsviolationsassessed-violationsorders-107a03 / HEALTHwatch
Occupational health samples
326 personal; 14 area. 6 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 EXPOSURE340 samples
personal-health-samplesarea-samples04 / PRODUCTIONcontext
Quarterly production and employment
57K employee hours and 109 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
2026-Q20 tons
mine-production-quarterlymine-production-yearly05 / LEGALwatch
Contests, conferences and decisions
59 contested-violation rows, 60 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 40 conference records linked by issuance number.
POST-ISSUANCE LIFECYCLE159 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 CONTEXT17 linked entities
contractor-production-quarterlycontractor-production-yearlyaccidentsviolations07 / INSPECTIONScontext
Inspections
257 inspection events and 13K published inspection hours across the historical record.
OVERSIGHT COVERAGE38 since 2021
inspectionsviolationsHEALTH SAMPLING
Silica and quartz
Coal quartz, metal/nonmetal personal samples and area samples. Snapshot Oct 13, 2026. 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No silica records match these filters. Missing samples do not establish safe conditions. | |||||
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 57.19066Maximum riders in a conveyance.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.20032Two-way communication equipment for underground operations.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.14207Parking procedures for unattended equipment.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.20003Housekeeping.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.12002Controls and switches.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.4104Combustible waste.2 recent rows ↗30 CFR 57.12030Correction of dangerous conditions.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.3200Correction of hazardous conditions.2 recent rows ↗
RECENT PUBLIC RECORDS
Recent violations and samples
Latest records retained for inspection; aggregates above use the full source history.
507829057.19066Citation
507603957.20032Citation
507603857.14207Citation
507603757.20003(a)Citation
507603657.12002Citation
507603557.4104(a)Citation
507603457.12030Citation
507603357.4104(b)Citation
Coal dust, noise and other contaminants. Silica records above ↑
TC from EC @ 160Drill Operator, Rotary
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0160.00Source unit unspecified
TC @ 160Drill Operator, Rotary
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0160.00Source unit unspecified
ORGANIC CARBONDrill Operator, Rotary
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
EC @ 160Drill Operator, Rotary
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0160.00Source unit unspecified
TC from EC @ 160Roof Bolter, Rock
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0160.00Source unit unspecified
TC @ 160Roof Bolter, Rock
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0160.00Source unit unspecified
ORGANIC CARBONRoof Bolter, Rock
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
EC @ 160Roof Bolter, Rock
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0160.00Source unit unspecified
SOURCE COVERAGE
Reporting dates and coverage
16 datasets contain linked records. Missing datasets are listed below.
DATASETROWSWINDOWSTATUS
Accident, Injuries, and Illnessessafety · contractors324Mar 6, 2000—Sep 3, 2026mine-keyed
Addresses of Recordidentity · logistics1Jun 2, 1992—Jun 2, 1992mine-keyed
Assessed Violationscompliance · legal1,339Mar 8, 2000—Jul 14, 2026mine-keyed
Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisionscompliance · legal60Oct 23, 2000—Jun 22, 2018mine-keyed
Coal Dust Sampleshealth · safety—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Conferencescompliance · legal40Jan 2, 2001—Aug 9, 2021mine-keyed
Contested Violationscompliance · legal59Nov 18, 2008—Dec 21, 2016mine-keyed
Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterlycontractors · production · safety1,796Not published—Not publishedentity-linked
Contractor Employment and Production — Yearlycontractors · production · safety448Not published—Not publishedentity-linked
Controller and Operator Historyidentity · compliance6Jan 1, 1950—Oct 1, 2010mine-keyed
Mine Employment and Production — Quarterlyproduction · safety · compliance424Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Mine Employment and Production — Yearlyproduction · safety · compliance108Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Inspectionssafety · compliance257Jan 25, 2000—Jul 15, 2026mine-keyed
Minesidentity · production · logistics1Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Metal and Nonmetal Area Sampleshealth · safety14Jul 14, 2021—Oct 30, 2025mine-keyed
Metal and Nonmetal Personal Health Sampleshealth · safety326Aug 29, 2000—Oct 30, 2025mine-keyed
Noise Sampleshealth · safety · equipment—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Quartz Samples — Coalhealth · safety—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Violationscompliance · safety · legal1,349Mar 8, 2000—Jul 14, 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.