Mining Incidents

Morris County Portable Plant: 19 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Morris County Highway Department · Surface
Controlled by Morris County-KS
Council Grove, Morris County, KS  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1401730

Morris County Portable Plant has $4K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
19
citations
5
significant & substantial
$3,669
proposed penalties
$3,669
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
20
inspections on record
155
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: 155 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Morris County Portable Plant has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
19 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-04-19.
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.
26.3%
significant & substantial
21.1%
high negligence or reckless
26.3%
reasonably likely or greater
52.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.3% low, 73.7% moderate, 21.1% 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: 2022-09-21, 3 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2022-09-21 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. Morris County Highway Department 2011 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 1
2024 1
2023 2
2022 7
2021 3
2020 2
2019 1
2018 1
2017 0
2016 1
2015 1
2014 1
2013 2
2012 1
2011 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Morris County Portable Plant sits in Morris County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Morris County, Kansas · Population 5,388
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$56,716
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 363 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 0 0 0
2025 Q3 82 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
Show 53 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 42 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q2 101 3 1 29703.0
2023 Q1 262 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 565 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 277 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 677 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 719 2 1 2781.6
2021 Q3 164 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 106 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 374 2 0 5347.6
2020 Q3 136 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 152 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 24 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 108 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 26 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 56 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 188 2 1 10638.3
2018 Q2 2 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 0 0 0
2016 Q3 13 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 38 4 0 105263.2
2015 Q4 0 0 0
2015 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q2 16 6 2 375000.0
2015 Q1 21 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 46 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 16 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 19 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 65 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 49 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 24 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 89 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 72 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 39 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 53 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 131 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 129 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 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.