Mining Incidents

Portable #1 Metal/Non-Metal

Fairfax, Brown County, MN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2103177

Portable #1 has $1K 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 2003
12
citations
5
significant & substantial
$1,366
proposed penalties
$1,366
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
30
inspections on record
208
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: 208 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 #1 has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
12 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2018-10-10.
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 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 169 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 182 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
Show 84 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 335 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 169 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q3 141 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 257 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 79 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 118 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 332 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q3 0 0 0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 0 1 0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 102 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 159 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 132 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 425 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 160 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 255 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q2 264 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q3 0 0 0
2014 Q2 213 2 1 9389.7
2013 Q4 0 0 0
2013 Q3 0 0 0
2013 Q2 0 0 0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q3 0 0 0
2012 Q2 0 0 0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 174 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 93 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 138 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 941 1 0 1062.7
2008 Q3 508 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 589 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 472 2 2 4237.3
2007 Q3 659 1 0 1517.5
2007 Q2 325 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 375 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 314 1 0 3184.7
2006 Q2 597 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 597 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 680 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 195 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 4,821 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 5,440 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 4,936 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 5,978 3 2 501.8
2003 Q3 4,613 1 0 216.8
2003 Q2 1,011 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 5,075 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 4,553 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 2,621 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 3,170 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 3,166 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,268 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 0 0 0
2000 Q3 2,794 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 3,099 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 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 #1

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.