Mining Incidents

Portable Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Michael L Langston
Florence, Fremont County, CO  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0504927

Portable has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 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 2010
34
citations
11
significant & substantial
$7,883
proposed penalties
$7,297
paid to date
93% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $586 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
22
inspections on record
264
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: 264 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Portable has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
34 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-21.
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 483 2 0 4140.8
2025 Q3 704 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 151 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,217 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
2024 Q2 2,009 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 647 0 0 0.0
Show 53 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q2 1,608 3 1 1865.7
2023 Q1 1,179 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 499 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,003 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 460 2 0 4347.8
2022 Q1 331 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q3 0 0 0
2021 Q2 518 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q3 0 0 0
2019 Q2 767 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 2,260 4 2 1769.9
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 1,786 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q3 0 0 0
2016 Q2 1,323 13 7 9826.2
2016 Q1 4,695 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 5,222 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 0 0 0
2014 Q1 3,640 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 0 0 0
2013 Q3 0 0 0
2013 Q2 85 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 4,570 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 670 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 6,649 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 7,408 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 7,695 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 4,551 1 0 219.7
2011 Q3 4,578 3 0 655.3
2011 Q2 1,873 1 0 533.9
2011 Q1 4,744 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 2,411 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 5,124 2 1 390.3
2010 Q2 5,780 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 5,722 3 0 524.3
2009 Q4 3,222 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 3,384 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 3,794 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 3,130 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.

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The full compliance file on Portable

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.