Mining Incidents

Portable # 5 Metal/Non-Metal

Quality Crushing · Surface
Controlled by Gene R Henrie
Ferron, Emery County, UT  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 4202632

Portable # 5 has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K 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 2019
39
citations
9
significant & substantial
$7,103
proposed penalties
$3,745
paid to date
53% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,358 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
9
inspections on record
161
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: 161 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 $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
39 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-11-13.
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 Q3 2,939 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,529 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,811 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,436 5 1 2052.5
2024 Q3 1,718 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 826 10 4 12106.5
2024 Q1 1,913 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
Show 21 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 1,081 9 1 8325.6
2023 Q2 1,358 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,262 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 859 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 0 0 0
2021 Q2 2,506 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,108 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,756 10 2 2662.4
2020 Q3 1,984 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,006 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,740 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,536 2 0 1302.1
2019 Q3 1,876 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 3,071 3 1 976.9
2019 Q1 1,492 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q4 0 0 0
2015 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q2 0 0 0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 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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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.