Mining Incidents

Portable 8 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Joseph R Vinagro
Johnston, Providence County, RI  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3700239

Portable 8 has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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 2020
22
citations
1
significant & substantial
$2,936
proposed penalties
$2,936
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
11
inspections on record
129
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: 129 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 8 has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
21 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-10-03.
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 2,991 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,393 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,485 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,410 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,912 3 0 1569.0
2024 Q3 2,871 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,445 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,861 0 0 0.0
Show 15 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 704 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,454 3 0 2063.3
2023 Q2 544 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,532 5 0 3263.7
2022 Q4 3,728 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3,853 3 1 778.6
2022 Q2 4,030 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,426 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,165 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,321 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,174 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,135 5 0 4405.3
2020 Q4 2,149 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,320 2 0 602.4
2020 Q2 3,266 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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