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Crusher: 38 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Richard J Ogle
Bozeman, Gallatin County, MT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2401462

Crusher has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
1989–2003
Latest incident
Jul 2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
38
citations
8
significant & substantial
$3,478
proposed penalties
$3,478
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Kenyon Noble Ready Mix's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
31
inspections on record
301
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘ This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 301 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Crusher has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
ⓘ Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
38 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $110 in penalties contested before the Commission, $110 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-05-13.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘ Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
21.1%
significant & substantial
2.6%
high negligence or reckless
21.1%
reasonably likely or greater
44.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 13.2% low, 84.2% moderate, 2.6% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Contested penalties
ⓘ A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
WEST20010416M Settlement Barbour 2001 $110 → $110
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘ A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘ Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2017-03-08, 9 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
10
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz5
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Fibers, >5um1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (10)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2017-03-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-01-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 0.65 0.32 Crusher Oper/Worker
2014-01-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-09-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-09-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.64 0.23 Crusher Oper/Worker
2009-09-16 Fibers, >5um 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-07-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.4 0.83 0.48 Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-07-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.84 0.17 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-09-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 0.78 0.32 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-09-18 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 1.42 Crusher Oper/Worker
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.

Crusher recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2002.

Injury rate, 2002
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.17 and the all-US-mining average was 5.05 cases per 100 workers.
In Montana, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 6.75 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2002 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2001 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Portable Inc 1979 to 2015
  2. Kenyon Noble Ready Mix 2015 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 4
2025 4
2017 3
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 2
2012 2
2011 3
2010 2
2009 2
2008 3
2007 4
2006 3
2005 3
2004 4
2003 6
2002 8
2001 9
2000 6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Crusher sits in Gallatin County, Montana, where the Census mining category is 0.3% of county employment.

Local economic context
ⓘ County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Gallatin County, Montana · Population 122,194
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$87,454
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
ⓘ Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2026 Q2 1,905 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1,798 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 1,964 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,470 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,862 2 1 1074.1
2017 Q1 1,337 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,205 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,298 0 0 0.0
Show 65 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2016 Q2 1,335 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,728 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,742 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 946 1 0 1057.1
2015 Q2 1,163 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,103 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 448 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 0 0 0
2014 Q2 1,040 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,325 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,120 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,253 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,077 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 918 2 0 2178.6
2012 Q4 877 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 974 1 0 1026.7
2012 Q2 760 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 920 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,066 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,208 2 1 1655.6
2011 Q1 861 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,067 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,117 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,070 1 0 934.6
2010 Q1 371 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 737 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,095 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 830 3 0 3614.5
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 616 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,499 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,563 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,554 4 0 2574.0
2007 Q4 1,347 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,928 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,762 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,195 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,149 4 0 3481.3
2006 Q3 1,853 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,876 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,465 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 983 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,727 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,832 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,686 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 2,062 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 2,300 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 3,116 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,595 4 2 2507.8
2003 Q4 1,694 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,709 4 1 2340.6
2003 Q2 6,436 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 2,327 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 6,287 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 8,135 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 6,231 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 2,482 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 5,994 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 8,024 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 6,125 10 3 1632.7
2001 Q1 1,479 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,296 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,694 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 422 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2003 · 2 incidents

July 16, 2003 MT · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator, crane operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Portable Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CLAIMANT INJURED ANKLE WHEN MOVING OFF OF CRUSHER BACK AND STEPPING TO CONVEYER BELT.

July 11, 2003 MT · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Portable Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE SHOULD HAVE ASKED FOR ASSISTANCE, INSTEAD HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LOAD A 4 X 4 X 2 SCREEN, ELBOW POPPED, CONTINUED TO HURT AND WOULD NOT WORK PROPERLY.

1991 · 2 incidents

June 11, 1991 MT · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) MACHINERY
Portable Inc · Flash burns (welding)

WHILE WORKING ON THE BED OF A 773 HAUL TRUCK A FLASH FROM ANOTHER WELDER AIR ARCING.

May 13, 1991 MT · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
Portable Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

WHEN UNPLUGGING THE JAWS OF THE CRUSHER THE JAWS CLEARED CAUSING THE FLYWHEELS TO TURN CATCHING BOTH FEET BETWEEN THE SPACER OF THE FRONT & REAR FLYWHEEL FX BOTH FEET

1990 · 1 incident

September 10, 1990 MT · Metal/Non-Metal tipple/top lander/skip dumper operator, binman, topman MACHINERY
Portable Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPL WAS WASHING SAND WHEN LARGE BOULDER JAMMED WASH PLANT. WE EMPL TRIED TO LOOSEN IT CAME FREE VERY QUICLY & SMASHED HAND BETWEEN ROCK 7 METAL.

1989 · 1 incident

May 1, 1989 MT · Metal/Non-Metal MACHINERY
Portable Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS GRINDING STEEL WITH AN AIR GRINDER . THE GRINDER WHEEL BROKE OFF AND THE EMPLOYEES RIGHT INDEX FINGER.