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Ottawa Plant, Le Sueur County, Minnesota: 37 MSHA citations
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Ottawa Plant is an active crushed, broken sandstone surface mine in Le Sueur County, Minnesota, operated by Covia Solutions LLC with 33 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 2100790). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 37 citations and orders there with $7,400 in proposed penalties, and 4 accident reports were filed there, with 2 injury or illness cases.
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- MSHA mine ID
- 2100790
- Status
- Active since December 11, 1978
- Main commodity
- Crushed, broken sandstone
- Mine type
- Surface
- County
- Le Sueur County, Minnesota
- Nearest town
- Ottawa
- Operator
- Covia Solutions LLC
- Parent company
- Covia Holdings LLC
- Employees
- 33
- MSHA field office
- Fort Dodge IA Field Office
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 37
- Significant and substantial
- 1 (2.7%)
- Closure orders
- 0
- High negligence or reckless
- 1
- Proposed penalties
- $7,400
- Amount paid so far
- $6,796
- Inspections
- 11
- Inspector hours on site
- 232
- Citations per inspection
- 3.36 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 4
- Injury and illness cases
- 2
- Fatalities
- 0
- Latest MSHA record
- August 6, 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 | 3 | 0 | $409 | 1 |
| 2023 | 8 | 0 | $1,164 | 0 |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | $441 | 1 |
| 2025 | 19 | 1 | $4,782 | 0 |
| 2026 | 4 | 0 | $604 | 0 |
Standards cited most at Ottawa Plant
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 56.12004 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 5 |
| 30 CFR 56.4201 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 4 |
| 30 CFR 47.41 | Hazard communication | 3 |
| 30 CFR 56.14112 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 3 |
| 30 CFR 56.20003 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 3 |
| 30 CFR 56.14101 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 2 |
| 30 CFR 56.12018 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 2 |
| 30 CFR 56.12032 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 2 |
| 30 CFR 56.4101 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.12005 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.12068 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.11002 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.4402 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.9300 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.14100 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
Injury and illness cases at Ottawa Plant
Accident reports by degree of injury, as the operator reported them to MSHA.
| Degree | Cases |
|---|---|
| Days away from work or restricted activity | 2 |
What the accident reports at Ottawa Plant describe
Accident classification, as MSHA codes the circumstances that contributed most directly.
| Classification | Reports |
|---|---|
| Other | 3 |
| Fire | 1 |
Equipment named in accident reports at Ottawa Plant
| Equipment | Reports |
|---|---|
| Shovel | 1 |
Other open mines in Le Sueur County, Minnesota
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WLC-2 | W Lorentz & Sons Construction, Inc. | Le Sueur County, MN | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 19 |
| Johnson Aggregates | Johnson Aggregates Incorporated | Le Sueur County, MN | Construction sand and gravel | 7 | 11 |
| James Bros Wash Plant | James Bros. Construction, Inc. | Le Sueur County, MN | Construction sand and gravel | 1 | 10 |
| Mollenhauer Gravel Pit | Traxler Construction Inc | Le Sueur County, MN | Construction sand and gravel | 3 | 3 |
| Kasota Davis Pit | Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. | Le Sueur County, MN | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 2 |
| James Bros. Sand & Gravel | James Bros. Construction, Inc. | Le Sueur County, MN | Construction sand and gravel | 1 | 2 |
| Dave Ton Pit | Darin Hanks Trucking & Excavating LLC | Le Sueur County, MN | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 1 |
| Crusher | Max Johnson Trucking, Inc. | Le Sueur County, MN | 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.