Mining Incidents

First Rate Portable 5 Metal/Non-Metal

First Rate Excavate · Surface
HARTFORD, Minnehaha County, SD  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3901668

First Rate Portable 5 has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2025
Latest incident
Nov 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2024
9
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,355
proposed penalties
$1,355
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2023
6
inspections on record
50
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: 50 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

First Rate Portable 5 has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
9 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-09.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2025 Q4 1,379 3 0 2175.5
2025 Q3 2,186 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,904 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 782 5 0 6393.9
2024 Q4 1,250 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,980 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 221 1 0 4524.9
Show 7 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 895 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 236 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 300 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 1,329 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,826 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 92 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2025 · 1 incident

November 14, 2025 SD · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE
First Rate Excavate · Struck by flying object

Cleaning up around equipment, struck overhead support causing skid loader window to break, glass into eye.

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