Mining Incidents

Portable #5 Metal/Non-Metal

Thompson Materials · Surface
Controlled by Moriah TFS Holdings LLC
orla, Reeves County, TX  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4105487

Portable #5 has $2K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
12
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,891
proposed penalties
$1,891
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
10
inspections on record
74
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: 74 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 #5 has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
12 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-11-02.
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 Q2 810 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 940 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,040 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,070 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 990 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,020 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 740 10 2 13513.5
2023 Q1 790 0 0 0.0
Show 10 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q4 1,060 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,105 1 0 905.0
2022 Q2 1,105 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,105 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,115 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 943 1 0 1060.4
2021 Q2 1,335 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,440 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 435 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 400 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 #5

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.