Mining Incidents

Portable 1 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Brent Kerr
Cornelius, Columbia County, OR  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3503746

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2024
Latest incident
Oct 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
192
citations
53
significant & substantial
$107,918
proposed penalties
$91,732
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 2,177 2 0 918.7
2025 Q3 2,828 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,583 4 1 1116.4
2025 Q1 3,475 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 5,030 5 2 994.0
2024 Q3 5,264 3 0 569.9
2024 Q2 9,184 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,244 3 0 1336.9
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

2024 · 2 incidents

October 3, 2024 OR · Metal/Non-Metal groundman, yardman POWERED HAULAGE
Columbia Northwest Recycling Inc. · Struck against a moving object

EE drove down haul road after fueling. Claims to have lost air pressure to the air brakes. Tried to shift down and it would not go back into gear. Turned the corner and rolled the truck onto the left side and then to the top.

October 3, 2024 OR · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Columbia Northwest Recycling Inc. · Struck against a moving object

EE was a passenger in the fuel/lube truck that a co-worker was driving at the time of accident. They came down the haul road after fueling. The co-worker told EE they had no air for the brakes and tried to shift down and the truck would not go back into gear. Turned the corner and the truck rolled onto its left side and then the top.