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Sand and gravel mines in North Dakota: 121 open mines

Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.

MSHA lists 121 open sand and gravel mines in North Dakota, run by 61 operators and employing 376 people. Since January 1, 2022 its inspectors issued 960 citations and orders there with $254,122 in proposed penalties, and operators reported 12 injury or illness cases. The operators with the most open mines are Fisher Sand & Gravel Company; Strata Corp; Gravel Products Inc. Data from MSHA, November 6, 2026.

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Open mines

121

Operators

61

Employees

376

Intermittent

112

Active

5

Temporarily Idled

4

Mines run by individuals, counted and not listed

18

Citations and orders since January 1, 2022

960

Significant and substantial

214 (22.3%)

Closure orders

19

High negligence or reckless

71

Proposed penalties

$254,122

Amount paid so far

$231,629

Inspections

611

Inspector hours on site

3,203

Citations per inspection

1.57 (all mines 2.30)

Accident reports

12

Injury and illness cases

12

Fatalities

0

Latest MSHA record

October 29, 2026

Operators with the most open mines in North Dakota

Ranked by open mines, then by citations. Sole proprietors and individuals are not listed.

Operators with the most citations in North Dakota

Citations and orders issued since January 1, 2022 at their open mines here.

Mines with the most citations

Open mines, ranked by citations and orders since January 1, 2022.

Main commodities

Citations and injury cases by year

Calendar years since 2022; 2026 runs to the date of the MSHA files.

Standards cited most at sand and gravel mines in North Dakota

Sections of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations named on the citations, with the part each belongs to.

Injury and illness cases at sand and gravel mines in North Dakota

Accident reports by degree of injury, as the operator reported them to MSHA.

What the accident reports at sand and gravel mines in North Dakota describe

Accident classification, as MSHA codes the circumstances that contributed most directly.

Equipment named in accident reports at sand and gravel mines in North Dakota

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.