Mining Incidents

Portable # 1 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Clifford L Keith
Cave Junction, Josephine County, OR  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3503763

Portable # 1 has $6K 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 2012
39
citations
6
significant & substantial
$5,769
proposed penalties
$5,316
paid to date
92% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $453 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
25
inspections on record
299
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: 299 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 $6K 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$453
outstanding
40 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-20.
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 108 2 0 18518.5
2025 Q3 86 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 83 1 0 12048.2
2025 Q1 118 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 113 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 118 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 89 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 115 0 0 0.0
Show 44 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 90 2 0 22222.2
2023 Q3 116 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 97 1 0 10309.3
2023 Q1 100 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 104 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 58 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 21 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 116 1 0 8620.7
2021 Q4 82 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 41 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 109 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 70 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 24 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 67 1 0 14925.4
2020 Q1 26 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 56 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 101 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 68 10 3 147058.8
2019 Q1 22 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 31 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 104 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 118 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 116 2 0 17241.4
2017 Q3 108 2 0 18518.5
2017 Q2 108 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 68 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 102 1 0 9803.9
2016 Q3 109 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 98 4 2 40816.3
2016 Q1 78 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 79 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 32 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 43 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 22 3 1 136363.6
2014 Q3 122 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 89 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 166 2 0 12048.2
2013 Q4 191 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 106 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 250 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 292 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 358 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 199 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 63 3 0 47619.0

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.