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: 141 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 #2 has $260 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.
$260
proposed penalties
$260
current assessed
$260
paid to date
$0
outstanding
3 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-04-15.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘA sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.
Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘMany samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2002-06-27, 24 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2002-06-27
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1.08
1.39
0.78
Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-06-27
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.31
1.58
0.20
Front-end Loader Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Portable #2 recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2000.
Injury rate, 2000
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.77 and the all-US-mining average was 5.64 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.42 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2009
0
2008
4
2007
6
2006
5
2005
5
2004
6
2003
6
2002
6
2001
8
2000
7
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Portable #2 sits in Hidalgo County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 1.8% 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.
Hidalgo County, Texas · Population 880,921
1.8%
Mining share of county employment
$52,281
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
2009 Q3
0
0
0
2009 Q2
0
0
0
2009 Q1
0
0
0
2008 Q4
234
0
0
0.0
2008 Q3
1,330
0
0
0.0
2008 Q2
3,970
1
0
251.9
2008 Q1
4,113
0
0
0.0
2007 Q4
4,606
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2007 Q3
4,560
0
0
0.0
2007 Q2
4,226
1
0
236.6
2007 Q1
2,533
0
0
0.0
2006 Q4
1,734
0
0
0.0
2006 Q3
3,189
0
0
0.0
2006 Q2
3,471
0
0
0.0
2006 Q1
3,187
0
0
0.0
2005 Q4
3,036
0
0
0.0
2005 Q3
3,260
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
3,247
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
3,292
0
0
0.0
2004 Q4
3,144
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
4,410
0
0
0.0
2004 Q2
3,968
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
3,486
0
0
0.0
2003 Q4
3,879
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
3,258
1
0
306.9
2003 Q2
3,683
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
4,464
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
3,728
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
3,926
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
4,503
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
4,210
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
4,786
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
4,263
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
5,402
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
5,291
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
4,951
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
4,858
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
5,010
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
5,497
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
9 on file
2003 · 1 incident
April 4, 2003TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDLING OF MATERIALS
WAS REMOVING A STUCK ROCK FROM #1 BELT OUT OF FEEDERS, EE WAS USING A PRY BAR AND OTHER EE WAS PULLING ON IT. AT THIS TIME HE FELT A MINOR PAIN IN HIS LUMBAR BACK AREA.
EE WAS AT THE LUBE AREA WITH HIS END DUMP TURNED OFF AND WHEELS CHOCKED. HE WAS INSPECTING THE UNDER CARRIAGE AND UPON COMPLETION HE WAS BACKING OUT BENT OVER. HE THOUGHT HE WAS CLEAR OF THE M ACHINE AND RAISED UP, HITTING THE AIR TANK DRAIN SPIGOT WITH THE CENTER OF HIS BACK.
July 31, 2001TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
EE WAS HITTING PLUGGED SCREEN WITH BRACE HAMMER, HEAD OF HAMMER WENT THROUGH SCREEN OPENING ALLOWING HIS FINGER TO BE PINCHED BETWEEN SCREEN AND HAMMER HANDLE.
February 27, 2001TX · Metal/Non-Metalmine manager, mine foreman, mine ownerMACHINERY
EE EXPERIENCED NUMBNESS ON 1 SIDE OF FACE 4/9/98HE WENT TO DR. AFTER SEVERAL EXAMS DR SUGGESTED THAT HE HAD A POSSIBLE DISK HERNIATION IN THE NECK AND CERTAI TESTS WERE REQUIRED. TESTS CONFIRM ED THAT HE HAD BULGING DISKS C3C4C4C5 & C5C6. ITWAS ALSO NOTED IN THE DR REPORT AS AN INCIDENTALFINDING THAT HE HAD BILATERAL CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME IN HIS WRISTS. SURGERY WAS RECOMMENED BY
1993 · 1 incident
July 7, 1993TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EE BEGAN CLIMBING DOWN A 6 FOOT LADDER TO GET TO THE GROUND LEVEL. WHEN HIS FEET REACHED THE 2ND RUNG, THE LADDER BEGAN TO SLIP FROM ITS LANDING AND HE FELL TO THE GROUND INJURING HIS CHEST ON A BLOCK OF WOOD.
EMPLOYEES TOGETHER (3) 3"X20' PIPE JOINTS (SEPERATELY) INTO A TRAILER WHICH STTOD ABOUT 18" OFF THE GROUND. LATER THAT AFTERNOON, THE EMPLOYEESTOGETHER, UNLOADED THE SAME PIPE JOINTS MONDAY, (7-1-91) THE INJURY WAS REPORTED AND THE EMPLOYEE RECEIVED AN INJECTION AND PRESCRIPTION FOR MUSCLE RELAXATION.
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