Portable Crusher #1 has $5K 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
1
Years on record
2007
Latest incident
Sep 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
31
citations
6
significant & substantial
$4,564
proposed penalties
$4,564
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
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: 209 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 $5K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
31 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-03-14.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2010-04-06, 16 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
5
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (5)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2010-04-06
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.32
Truck Loader
2010-04-06
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2009-04-23
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
1.57
Crusher Oper/Worker
2007-10-31
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
1.28
10
0.13
Crusher Oper/Worker
2007-10-31
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
1.62
10
0.16
Truck Driver
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2012
7
2011
8
2010
12
2009
13
2008
15
2007
17
2006
9
2005
7
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Portable Crusher #1 sits in Comal County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 1.0% 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.
Comal County, Texas · Population 174,552
1.0%
Mining share of county employment
$99,015
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
The person that was killed was a trespasser that lived on Vogel Ranch. He was with a couple of friends, drinking beer, when he walked down into the pit. We guess he tried climbing the wall, when a boulder came down and crushed him.