Mining Incidents

Hardrock Portable: 27 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Hardrock Inc · Surface
Controlled by Eric J Place
Plummer, Benewah County, ID  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1002261

Hardrock Portable has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $453 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2016
27
citations
2
significant & substantial
$3,643
proposed penalties
$3,190
paid to date
88% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $453 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
11
inspections on record
154
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: 154 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Hardrock Portable has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $453 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
$3K
paid to date
$453
outstanding
24 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-07-14.
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.
7.4%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
7.4%
reasonably likely or greater
33.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 14.8% low, 85.2% moderate, 0.0% 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: 2016-10-25, 9 years ago
2
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2016-10-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2016-10-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
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.
Ownership history
  1. Hardrock Inc 2015 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 3
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
2021 0
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
2016 3
2015 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Hardrock Portable sits in Benewah County, Idaho, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
Benewah County, Idaho · Population 9,913
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$56,553
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 332 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1,380 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 2,045 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,358 12 0 5089.1
2025 Q2 418 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 250 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 442 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 464 0 0 0.0
Show 24 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q1 289 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 425 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 302 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 456 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 311 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q2 310 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 208 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 341 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 257 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 336 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 190 2 1 10526.3
2018 Q3 82 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 459 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 1,392 3 0 2155.2
2017 Q3 163 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 563 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 135 2 1 14814.8
2016 Q3 73 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 416 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 262 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 679 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.