Mining Incidents

Portable 2 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Bert Dale; Bart Dale
Riverton, Fremont County, WY  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4801668

Portable 2 has $20K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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 2005
60
citations
17
significant & substantial
$20,148
proposed penalties
$14,699
paid to date
73% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $5,449 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
44
inspections on record
545
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: 545 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 $20K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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.
$20K
proposed penalties
$15K
current assessed
$15K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
60 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-09-16.
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 3,815 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,630 1 0 275.5
2022 Q2 2,044 5 3 2446.2
2022 Q1 2,850 6 1 2105.3
2021 Q4 2,991 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,176 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,405 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 3,184 1 0 314.1
Show 62 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2020 Q4 2,799 7 2 2500.9
2020 Q3 3,499 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,214 7 5 2178.0
2020 Q1 1,824 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,502 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,936 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,799 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,863 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 2,225 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,450 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,246 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,273 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 925 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,621 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,505 1 0 399.2
2017 Q1 1,176 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 937 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,670 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,987 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,819 3 1 1649.3
2015 Q4 864 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,451 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,280 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,899 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,948 2 0 1026.7
2014 Q3 2,341 1 0 427.2
2014 Q2 2,324 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,621 1 0 616.9
2013 Q4 2,035 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,244 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,901 1 0 526.0
2013 Q1 1,396 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,037 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,256 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,113 1 1 473.3
2012 Q1 1,567 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,805 3 1 1662.0
2011 Q3 2,012 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,618 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1,031 1 1 969.9
2010 Q4 1,266 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,775 1 1 563.4
2010 Q2 1,384 1 1 722.5
2010 Q1 1,312 3 0 2286.6
2009 Q4 1,739 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 2,545 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 2,178 2 0 918.3
2009 Q1 2,060 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 2,022 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 2,147 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,755 4 0 2279.2
2008 Q1 1,447 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,678 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,635 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,058 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,228 3 0 2443.0
2006 Q4 783 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,084 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,415 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,612 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 625 1 0 1600.0
2005 Q3 1,476 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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The full compliance file on Portable 2

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.