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Portable #4: 80 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Gene R Henrie
Grantsville, Tooele County, UT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4202630

Portable #4 has $61K in proposed MSHA penalties and $19K outstanding across 2 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 2015
80
citations
21
significant & substantial
$60,872
proposed penalties
$41,701
paid to date
69% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $19,171 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Quality Crushing Corporation's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
21
inspections on record
316
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: 316 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 #4 has $61K in proposed MSHA penalties and $19K outstanding across 2 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.
$61K
proposed penalties
$61K
current assessed
$42K
paid to date
$19K
outstanding
80 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $17K in penalties contested before the Commission, $17K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2021-04-15.
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.
26.2%
significant & substantial
7.5%
high negligence or reckless
26.2%
reasonably likely or greater
83.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 92.5% moderate, 7.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
3 citations taken to the federal commission · 4% of citations on record
  • Stood as issued 3 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 3 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$17K proposed, $17K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2021-09-12.
Contested penalties
ⓘ A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
WEST 2021-0322 Default 2022 $15K → $15K
WEST 2021-0321 Default 2022 $3K → $3K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2018-10-23, 7 years ago
20%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
5
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz51 over
Show the individual readings (5)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2018-09-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.37 0.23 1.61 Crusher Oper/Worker
2018-10-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.2 0.65 Crusher Oper/Worker
2018-09-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 0.69 0.33 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-04-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 0.73 0.22 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-04-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.6 0.25 Crusher Oper/Worker
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.
Ownership history
  1. Quality Crushing Corporation 2014 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2022 0
2021 8
2020 8
2019 8
2018 7
2017 7
2016 7
2015 1
2014 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable #4 sits in Tooele County, Utah, 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.
Tooele County, Utah · Population 76,648
1.8%
Mining share of county employment
$101,846
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
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q3 2,689 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 4,034 24 8 5949.4
2021 Q1 5,020 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 4,530 1 1 220.8
2020 Q3 4,767 5 2 1048.9
2020 Q2 5,805 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 4,498 7 4 1556.2
Show 22 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2019 Q4 4,127 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 4,025 4 0 993.8
2019 Q2 4,527 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 3,452 3 0 869.1
2018 Q4 3,211 1 1 311.4
2018 Q3 3,685 8 3 2171.0
2018 Q2 3,654 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 3,528 5 0 1417.2
2017 Q4 3,124 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 3,640 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,528 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 3,301 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 3,564 1 0 280.6
2016 Q3 4,830 15 2 3105.6
2016 Q2 1,248 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 3,758 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 0 0 0
2015 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q2 400 5 0 12500.0
2015 Q1 450 1 0 2222.2
2014 Q4 1,452 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,375 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.