Mining Incidents

PORTABLE PLANT II Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Barney C Beer
New Paris, Elkhart County, IN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1202121

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2006
Latest incident
Jun 2006
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
29
citations
4
significant & substantial
$2,756
proposed penalties
$2,756
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 1,108 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,148 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,182 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 876 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,051 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,136 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,137 1 0 879.5
2024 Q1 1,004 0 0 0.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2006 · 1 incident

June 23, 2006 IN · Metal/Non-Metal scalper-screen operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Elkhart County Gravel Inc · Fall onto or against objects

Operator observed a large stone stuck in oversize discharge bars of the vibrating feed hopper. Operator shut down the hopper & climbed up on to the discharge of oversize stone plate. Operator tried to break free the large stone by prying on rock with pry bar, lost balance and fell on rock pile.