Mining Incidents

Portable-1 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Knife River Corporation
Kailuu-kona, Hawaii County, HI  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 5100242

Portable-1 has $6K 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
2
Years on record
2005–2013
Latest incident
Jul 2013
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2004
40
citations
7
significant & substantial
$5,946
proposed penalties
$5,946
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
48
inspections on record
586
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: 586 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 $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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
39 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-04-24.
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
2025 Q4 3,416 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 4,480 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 4,060 5 0 1231.5
2025 Q1 3,644 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,360 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 4,392 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 6,200 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 6,280 0 0 0.0
Show 86 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 6,040 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 5,940 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 4,550 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 6,032 1 0 165.8
2022 Q4 4,160 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 4,160 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 4,160 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 4,160 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,250 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,560 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,560 1 0 641.0
2021 Q1 2,600 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,600 2 0 769.2
2020 Q3 2,600 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,120 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 3,120 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,560 1 0 641.0
2019 Q3 2,730 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 3,640 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 3,640 2 0 549.5
2018 Q4 3,640 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,640 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 4,095 1 0 244.2
2018 Q1 3,640 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 3,640 1 0 274.7
2017 Q3 3,640 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 4,095 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 4,550 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 3,360 1 0 297.6
2016 Q3 3,584 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 3,584 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 3,584 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 3,696 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 3,696 2 0 541.1
2015 Q2 4,160 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 4,160 3 0 721.2
2014 Q4 3,640 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 3,160 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,168 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 2,112 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 2,112 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,112 1 0 473.5
2013 Q2 2,450 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 2,419 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,520 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,480 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,600 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 880 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 0 0 0
2011 Q3 3,120 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,600 7 3 2692.3
2011 Q1 2,560 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 2,240 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 2,640 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 2,600 2 0 769.2
2010 Q1 2,560 2 0 781.2
2009 Q4 2,640 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 2,112 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 3,432 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 3,328 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 3,432 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 3,752 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 3,696 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 4,680 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 4,317 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 4,176 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 5,148 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 5,221 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 5,035 3 2 595.8
2006 Q3 5,556 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 5,560 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 5,421 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,729 3 1 1735.1
2005 Q3 1,716 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,625 1 1 615.4
2005 Q1 1,554 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 4,581 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 4,056 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 4,173 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 3,935 1 0 254.1
2003 Q4 88 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 121 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 88 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 121 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 394 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 2,138 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2013 · 1 incident

July 23, 2013 HI · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec OTHER
West Hawaii Concrete · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Sometime between the hours of 1200 am and 6:00 am an unknown male between the age of 25 and 35 committed suicide. The victim used a self-purchased rope and entered onto the mine site, where he secured the rope to a railing on the screen and walked below and committed the act of suicide.

2005 · 1 incident

December 16, 2005 HI · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
West Hawaii Concrete · Fall from machine

Splicing a conveyor belt on the radial stacker. As employee was cutting the belt the belt ripped and knocked the employee off the belt. Employee fell approx. 10 feet to the ground.

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