Mining Incidents

Portable 1: 3 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by James Severson
Ravensdale, King County, WA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4503808

Portable 1 has $417 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
1
Years on record
2026
Latest incident
May 2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
3
citations
0
significant & substantial
$417
proposed penalties
$417
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2021
4
inspections on record
13
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: 13 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 $417 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.
$417
proposed penalties
$417
current assessed
$417
paid to date
$0
outstanding
3 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-02-06.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
33.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 66.7% low, 33.3% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Severson Road Contractors 2020 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 4
2025 4
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
2021 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable 1 sits in King County, Washington, where the Census mining category is 0.0% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
King County, Washington · Population 2,262,713
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$122,148
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
2026 Q2 1,324 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1,285 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 1,631 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,296 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,050 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,870 1 0 534.8
2024 Q4 1,195 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
Show 14 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 112 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 121 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 224 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 179 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 126 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,295 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 923 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 183 2 0 10929.0
2021 Q3 0 0 0
2021 Q2 101 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 434 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2026 · 1 incident

May 1, 2026 WA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Severson Road Contractors · Fall from machine

Employee and owner were performing maintenance on screen plant. Employee was on screen and jumped down onto lower screen breaking both ankles.