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Wheeler Pit, Montcalm County, Michigan: 18 MSHA citations
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Wheeler Pit is an active construction sand and gravel surface mine in Montcalm County, Michigan, operated by High Grade Materials Co. with 5 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 2000880). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 18 citations and orders there with $2,602 in proposed penalties, and 0 accident reports were filed there, with no injury or illness cases.
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- MSHA mine ID
- 2000880
- Status
- Active since November 17, 2011
- Main commodity
- Construction sand and gravel
- Mine type
- Surface
- County
- Montcalm County, Michigan
- Nearest town
- Greenville
- Operator
- High Grade Materials Co.
- Employees
- 5
- MSHA field office
- Lansing MI Field Office
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 18
- Significant and substantial
- 1 (5.6%)
- Closure orders
- 0
- High negligence or reckless
- 0
- Proposed penalties
- $2,602
- Amount paid so far
- $2,602
- Inspections
- 9
- Inspector hours on site
- 79
- Citations per inspection
- 2.00 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 0
- Injury and illness cases
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Latest MSHA record
- June 17, 2026
Citations and injury cases by year
Calendar years since 2022; 2026 runs to the date of the MSHA files.
| Year | Citations and orders | Significant and substantial | Proposed penalties | Injury and illness cases |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | $266 | 0 |
| 2023 | 8 | 0 | $1,148 | 0 |
| 2024 | 5 | 1 | $735 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | $151 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | $302 | 0 |
Standards cited most at Wheeler Pit
Sections of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations named on the citations, with the part each belongs to.
| Standard | What the part covers | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 30 CFR 56.14132 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 4 |
| 30 CFR 56.14112 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 4 |
| 30 CFR 56.12032 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 2 |
| 30 CFR 56.11001 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.12068 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.12004 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.14108 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.4402 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.14107 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.12008 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.9300 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
Other open mines in Montcalm County, Michigan
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shook Gravel Pit | Shook Asphalt Co., Inc. | Montcalm County, MI | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 7 |
| Flat River Gravel | A.t. Zylstra, LLC | Montcalm County, MI | Construction sand and gravel | 1 | 5 |
| Lakeview Pit | High Grade Materials Co. | Montcalm County, MI | Construction sand and gravel | 1 | 5 |
| D-1 | Dairyland Excavating L.L.C. | Montcalm County, MI | Construction sand and gravel | 3 | 4 |
| Shook Pit #2 | Shook Asphalt Co., Inc. | Montcalm County, MI | Construction sand and gravel | 1 | 4 |
| Lukes Plant | Montcalm Aggregates | Montcalm County, MI | Construction sand and gravel | 4 | 2 |
| Pitcher Perfect Excavating | Pitcher Perfect Excavating LLC | Montcalm County, MI | Construction sand and gravel | 3 | 1 |
| Caris Plant | Montcalm Aggregates | Montcalm County, MI | Construction sand and gravel | 1 | 1 |
| Chris's Plant | Montcalm Aggregates | Montcalm County, MI | Construction sand and gravel | 4 | 0 |
| Waterwheel Pit | Rockafellow Excavating LLC | Montcalm County, MI | Construction sand and gravel | 3 | 0 |
| Jean's Pit | Wichert Trucking & Excavating, LLC | Montcalm County, MI | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 0 |
US government work, public domain. Counts come from the MSHA files published on November 6, 2026. An open mine is one MSHA lists as Active, Intermittent, New Mine, Temporarily Idled or NonProducing; 13,673 were open that day. Citations, penalties, inspections and accident reports run from January 1, 2022. A citation is an inspector's allegation and an operator can contest it; the penalty is the amount MSHA first proposed, before any contest or settlement. An operator is the legal entity MSHA assesses, and a parent company is its controller. Mines run by sole proprietors or by individuals are counted in every total and are not named. This page uses MSHA data and is not endorsed or certified by MSHA. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.