Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher #1 Metal/Non-Metal

Northern Plains LLC · Surface
Controlled by Doug Osborn
Winner, Mellette County, SD  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3901616

Portable Crusher #1 has $8K 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 2016
35
citations
8
significant & substantial
$8,321
proposed penalties
$8,321
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
17
inspections on record
179
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: 179 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 Crusher #1 has $8K 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
35 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-05-03.
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 57 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
Show 28 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q2 966 17 3 17598.3
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 312 2 1 6410.3
2022 Q2 156 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q3 0 0 0
2021 Q2 298 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 124 1 1 8064.5
2020 Q3 48 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 414 1 1 2415.5
2020 Q1 179 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 449 1 0 2227.2
2019 Q3 501 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 259 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 643 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 331 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 286 1 0 3496.5
2018 Q2 8 5 1 625000.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 0 2 0
2017 Q3 40 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 246 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 27 4 1 148148.1

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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