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Portable #3 Metal/Non-Metal

Paulsen, Inc · Surface

Controlled by Larry Paulsen

Cozad, Dawson County, NE · Intermittent

MSHA Mine ID: 2500540

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2006–2018
Latest incident: Oct 2018

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2006

citations

significant & substantial

$1,457

proposed penalties

$1,457

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	31	0	0	0.0
2025 Q3	370	4	3	10810.8
2023 Q3	0	0	0
2023 Q2	0	0	0
2023 Q1	69	0	0	0.0
2022 Q4	0	0	0
2022 Q3	0	0	0
2022 Q2	25	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

2 on file

2018 · 1 incident

October 3, 2018 NE · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Paulsen, Inc · Struck by flying object

They were repositioning the dredge in gusty winds when the starboard side positioning line became taught. EE attempted to ease the line out by pulling the dog back out of the sprocket teeth when ee did hand slipped off the winch handle causing it to free wheel the winch handle came around hitting right hand and ee nose as went down to the deck.

2006 · 1 incident

August 28, 2006 NE · Metal/Non-Metal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Paulsen, Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The latch on a fiber rope winch released unexpectedly causing the winch handle to come around and strike the miner on the back of his left hand.