Mining Incidents

Portable 1 Metal/Non-Metal

Beaver Pumice LLC · Surface
Klamath Falls, Klamath County, OR  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3503870

Portable 1 has $43K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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 2019
50
citations
12
significant & substantial
$43,397
proposed penalties
$28,068
paid to date
65% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $15,329 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
23
inspections on record
338
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: 338 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 $43K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$43K
proposed penalties
$28K
current assessed
$28K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
50 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-11.
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 3,145 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,846 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,127 5 4 1599.0
2025 Q1 4,510 14 6 3104.2
2024 Q4 2,691 4 0 1486.4
2024 Q3 2,691 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,706 5 0 1349.2
2024 Q1 2,542 0 0 0.0
Show 21 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,604 5 0 1920.1
2023 Q3 2,500 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,610 3 0 1149.4
2023 Q1 1,408 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 962 4 1 4158.0
2022 Q3 1,033 1 0 968.1
2022 Q2 1,371 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,338 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,753 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,047 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,615 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,700 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,462 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,551 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,467 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,028 3 0 2918.3
2019 Q4 889 2 1 2249.7
2019 Q3 1,441 2 0 1387.9
2019 Q2 255 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 74 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 10 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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