First Rate Portable 6
Metal/Non-Metal
Sioux Falls,
Minnehaha County,
SD
·
Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3901681
First Rate Portable 6 has $302 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
- 2026
- Latest incident
- Mar 2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2025
0
significant & substantial
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2025
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 28 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 6 has $302 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
2 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-01-14.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
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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 |
1,275 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2025 Q3 |
2,152 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2025 Q2 |
557 |
1 |
0 |
1795.3 |
| 2025 Q1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2024 Q4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2024 Q3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2024 Q2 |
1,760 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2026 · 1 incident
First Rate Excavate · Struck against stationary object
Miner was climbing down from a ladder on the plant, stepped on a rock or uneven surface at the bottom of the ladder and twisted EE's ankle, resulting in a fracture
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