Mining Incidents

Portable #1 Metal/Non-Metal

Sumas Transport Inc · Surface
Controlled by Dennis Scheffer
Sumas, Whatcom County, WA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4503203

Portable #1 has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K outstanding across 1 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 2001
27
citations
7
significant & substantial
$5,710
proposed penalties
$2,044
paid to date
36% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,666 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
13
inspections on record
164
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: 164 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 $4K outstanding across 1 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
$2K
paid to date
$4K
outstanding
27 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-08-24.
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
2005 Q1 5 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 228 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 338 1 0 2958.6
2004 Q2 404 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 523 5 2 9560.2
2003 Q4 115 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 705 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 299 7 2 23411.4
Show 12 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2003 Q1 263 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 310 1 1 3225.8
2002 Q3 1,113 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 971 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 526 10 2 19011.4
2001 Q4 720 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 220 3 0 13636.4
2001 Q1 144 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 714 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,498 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,444 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,114 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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