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Elm Creek, Buffalo County, Nebraska: 5 MSHA citations
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Elm Creek is an intermittent construction sand and gravel surface mine in Buffalo County, Nebraska, operated by Paulsen Inc with 3 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 2501242). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 5 citations and orders there with $769 in proposed penalties, and 0 accident reports were filed there, with no injury or illness cases.
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- MSHA mine ID
- 2501242
- Status
- Intermittent since July 23, 2025
- Main commodity
- Construction sand and gravel
- Mine type
- Surface
- County
- Buffalo County, Nebraska
- Nearest town
- Elm Creek
- Operator
- Paulsen Inc
- Employees
- 3
- MSHA field office
- Topeka KS Field Office
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 5
- Significant and substantial
- 1 (20.0%)
- Closure orders
- 0
- High negligence or reckless
- 0
- Proposed penalties
- $769
- Amount paid so far
- $769
- Inspections
- 4
- Inspector hours on site
- 24
- Citations per inspection
- 1.25 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 0
- Injury and illness cases
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Latest MSHA record
- March 31, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | $429 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | $147 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | $193 | 0 |
Standards cited most at Elm Creek
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 56.14107 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.11002 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.4101 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.12025 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.12028 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
Other open mines in Buffalo County, Nebraska
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadfoot #2 | Broadfoot Sand & Gravel Inc | Buffalo County, NE | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 29 |
| Turkey Creek Pit | Broadfoot Sand & Gravel Inc | Buffalo County, NE | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 19 |
| Minden Pit | Mid-Nebraska Aggregate Inc | Buffalo County, NE | Construction sand and gravel | 4 | 12 |
| Gravel Crusher | Vontz Paving, Inc | Buffalo County, NE | Crushed, broken stone | 2 | 7 |
| Odessa Pit | Paulsen Inc | Buffalo County, NE | Construction sand and gravel | 3 | 5 |
| Pit #1 | Edward D. Broadfoot & Sons Sand & Gravel Corp | Buffalo County, NE | Construction sand and gravel | 3 | 5 |
| Portable Crusher #3 | Werner Construction Inc. | Buffalo County, NE | Construction sand and gravel | 3 | 4 |
| Portable Dredge 5 | Werner Aggregates, Inc. | Buffalo County, NE | Sand, common | 1 | 4 |
| Windmill Pit | Mid-Nebraska Aggregate Inc | Buffalo County, NE | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 3 |
| Wells Pit | Overton Sand & Gravel Company | Buffalo County, NE | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 3 |
| Newark | Mid-Nebraska Aggregate Inc | Buffalo County, NE | Construction sand and gravel | 1 | 3 |
| Dredge 3 | Vontz Paving, Inc | Buffalo County, NE | Construction sand and gravel | 3 | 2 |
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.