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Freedom Portable Plant: 30 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Portable, Cole County, MO  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2302354

Freedom Portable Plant has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2009–2018
Latest incident
Aug 2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
30
citations
9
significant & substantial
$3,868
proposed penalties
$3,717
paid to date
96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $151 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Capital Quarries Company's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2007
46
inspections on record
578
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: 578 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Freedom Portable Plant has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$151
outstanding
29 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-22.
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.
30.0%
significant & substantial
13.3%
high negligence or reckless
30.0%
reasonably likely or greater
16.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 3.3% none, 30.0% low, 53.3% moderate, 13.3% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2026-02-04
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
29
samples
10
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg18
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz6
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz3
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (29)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-02-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2026-02-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2026-02-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2026-02-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-09-10 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.61 10 0.06 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-09-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-07-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-07-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-03-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-03-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2017-03-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2017-03-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-07-24 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 4.6 10 0.46 Supervisor, Co. Official
2013-07-24 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 1.15 10 0.12 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-07-24 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 0 10 0.00 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-03-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Complete Load-Haul-Dump
2013-03-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-03-08 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.42 10 0.04 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-03-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2012-03-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2012-03-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-06-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-06-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2011-06-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.63 0.21 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-01-13 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.19 10 0.02 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-01-13 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.19 10 0.02 Mechanic
2007-08-23 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.19 10 0.02 Front-end Loader Operator
2007-08-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2007-08-23 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.22 10 0.02 Utility Man
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.

Freedom Portable Plant recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ 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
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Missouri, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.13 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
2025 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 9.46 0.00 0.000
2017 * 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. Capital Quarries Company 2007 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 12
2025 14
2024 12
2023 14
2022 15
2021 11
2020 12
2019 9
2018 10
2017 11
2016 9
2015 8
2014 7
2013 7
2012 6
2011 8
2010 8
2009 7
2008 10
2007 14
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Freedom Portable Plant sits in Cole County, Missouri, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Cole County, Missouri · Population 76,924
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$73,273
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 5,401 1 0 185.2
2026 Q1 5,108 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 5,618 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 6,487 1 0 154.2
2025 Q2 6,049 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 6,724 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4,937 1 0 202.6
2024 Q3 5,097 0 0 0.0
Show 70 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 4,568 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 5,523 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 7,155 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 5,194 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 6,703 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 8,625 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 5,974 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 6,960 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 6,110 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 7,592 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 5,596 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 5,174 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 5,971 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 5,068 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 5,651 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 4,764 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 6,488 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 5,041 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 3,882 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 5,405 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 4,157 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 4,677 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 4,752 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 5,163 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 6,445 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 4,784 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 4,553 1 0 219.6
2017 Q3 4,218 2 2 474.2
2017 Q2 5,681 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 7,386 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 5,678 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 6,468 2 0 309.2
2016 Q2 6,615 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 4,545 3 0 660.1
2015 Q4 4,489 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 3,998 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 3,438 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 2,524 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 3,048 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 4,511 1 1 221.7
2014 Q2 3,576 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 3,457 2 2 578.5
2013 Q4 5,010 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 4,579 2 1 436.8
2013 Q2 4,208 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 3,772 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 4,244 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 4,395 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 3,706 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 3,083 1 1 324.4
2011 Q4 3,998 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 5,237 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 5,227 2 1 382.6
2011 Q1 4,408 1 0 226.9
2010 Q4 5,048 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 4,934 1 0 202.7
2010 Q2 3,787 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 3,158 1 0 316.7
2009 Q4 4,318 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 4,064 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 3,731 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 3,278 3 0 915.2
2008 Q4 4,319 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 2,738 1 0 365.2
2008 Q2 2,751 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,965 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 2,330 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 3,184 3 0 942.2
2007 Q2 2,669 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 2,709 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2018 · 1 incident

August 21, 2018 MO · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Capital Quarries Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was cleaning up a area of some 6x6 blocks and putting them in the bobcat bucket. EE lost one end of the block and pinched the pinky finger on the block underneath.

2017 · 1 incident

October 11, 2017 MO · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Capital Quarries Company · Struck by flying object

The employee was using a 8" hand held grinder to square up the excavator bucket pin boss face. When grinding employee got a piece of steel in left eye. Employee received medical treatment to have it removed.

2015 · 1 incident

December 23, 2015 MO · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Capital Quarries Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The employee was in process of replacing a hydraulic cylinder on crusher and the cylinder slid down and caught his pinky finger. The employee received two stiches and some glue.

2012 · 1 incident

October 30, 2012 MO · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Capital Quarries Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee was in the process of changing a pressure relieve switch when it suddenly blew off. The reason why this occurred is because the employee failed to let off the hydraulic system resulting in the incident. The employee was hit in the right eye with hydraulic oil Sent to local ER for a complete eye washing and medication.

2009 · 2 incidents

August 5, 2009 MO · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Capital Quarries Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The impact crusher had stalled leaving rock lodged inside. Employee's were rolling boulder out of impactor when employee's hand was caught cutting his finger. The two employees were not communicating together and the rock slid onto the employee's hand causing the injury.

February 12, 2009 MO · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)
Capital Quarries Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee stated that he has been wearing proper hearing protection while working around equipment. Employee also stated that he has started to wear hearing protection while working at home. He is unsure why there was a change in his hearing.