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Portable Crusher #1: 151 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Pamp Maiers
Moses Lake, Grant County, WA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4502994

Portable Crusher #1 has $34K 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
2
Years on record
1986–1999
Latest incident
Aug 1999
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
151
citations
28
significant & substantial
$34,011
proposed penalties
$34,011
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See North Central Construction's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
65
inspections on record
1,108
inspection hours
13.6
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.
151 citations across 1,108 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher #1 has $34K 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.
$34K
proposed penalties
$34K
current assessed
$34K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
150 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $203 in penalties contested before the Commission, $203 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-25.
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.
18.7%
significant & substantial
8.0%
high negligence or reckless
18.7%
reasonably likely or greater
62.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 10.7% low, 81.3% moderate, 8.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
  • Stood as issued 1 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$203 proposed, $203 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2007-01-31.
Contested penalties
ⓘ A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
WEST 2007-215M Dismissal Barbour 2007 $203 → $203
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2016-03-16, 10 years ago
31%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
16
samples
13
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz114 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Arsenic fumes1
  • Beryllium fumes1
Show the individual readings (28)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2003-07-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 2 0.58 3.45 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-07-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 8.74 0.61 14.33 Laborer, Bullgang
2003-07-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.09 0.64 1.70 Truck Driver
2003-07-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 4.13 0.98 4.21 Crusher Oper/Worker
2016-03-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.64 0.83 0.77 Crusher Oper/Worker
2009-04-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-04-10 Vanadium fumes 0 50 0.00 Welder, etc.
2009-04-10 Zinc oxide fumes 0 10 0.00 Welder, etc.
2009-04-10 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.88 Truck Driver
2009-04-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 1.2 0.28 Crusher Oper/Worker
2009-04-10 Arsenic fumes 0 1500 0.00 Welder, etc.
2009-04-10 Beryllium fumes 0 6 0.00 Welder, etc.
2009-04-10 Cadmium oxide fumes 0 100 0.00 Welder, etc.
2009-04-10 Chromium, insoluble 0 3 0.00 Welder, etc.
2009-04-10 Cobalt fumes 0 300 0.00 Welder, etc.
2009-04-10 Copper fumes 3.53 300 0.01 Welder, etc.
2009-04-10 Iron oxide fumes 0.68 20 0.03 Welder, etc.
2009-04-10 Lead fumes 17.84 450 0.04 Welder, etc.
2009-04-10 Magnesium oxide fumes 0.02 20 0.00 Welder, etc.
2009-04-10 Manganese fumes 0.2 5 0.04 Welder, etc.
2009-04-10 Molybdenum fumes 0 20 0.00 Welder, etc.
2009-04-10 Nickel fumes 0 3 0.00 Welder, etc.
2005-03-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.82 2.45 0.33 Truck Driver
2005-03-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.92 2.27 0.41 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-03-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.51 1.93 0.78 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-03-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.63 1.42 0.44 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-06-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.29 0.69 0.42 Oiler, Greaser
2004-06-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
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.

Portable Crusher #1 recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2019.

Injury rate, 2019
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.94 and the all-US-mining average was 2.32 cases per 100 workers.
In Washington, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.43 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2001 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. N A Degerstrom Inc 1983 to 2003
  2. North Central Construction 2003 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 7
2025 11
2024 10
2023 11
2022 9
2021 8
2020 10
2019 11
2018 10
2017 9
2016 10
2015 9
2014 4
2013 4
2012 4
2011 6
2010 7
2009 5
2008 4
2007 7
2006 7
2005 9
2004 9
2003 11
2002 10
2001 9
2000 7
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher #1 sits in Grant County, Washington, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Grant County, Washington · Population 100,428
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$71,115
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
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2026 Q2 3,608 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 3,011 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 3,040 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,603 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,664 1 0 272.9
2025 Q1 4,458 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4,423 6 1 1356.5
2024 Q3 3,357 4 1 1191.5
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 5,187 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 5,470 4 0 731.3
2023 Q4 3,889 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 5,314 3 0 564.5
2023 Q2 3,816 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 5,392 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 4,029 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 4,380 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,737 2 0 535.2
2022 Q1 5,106 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,342 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,271 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,580 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 3,923 2 0 509.8
2020 Q4 4,407 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 4,101 1 0 243.8
2020 Q2 3,837 5 1 1303.1
2020 Q1 2,298 2 0 870.3
2019 Q4 4,783 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 6,318 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 5,829 1 0 171.6
2019 Q1 5,171 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 4,934 5 0 1013.4
2018 Q3 4,940 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 5,151 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 5,534 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 3,725 1 0 268.5
2017 Q3 4,189 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 4,273 1 0 234.0
2017 Q1 3,643 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 3,464 10 3 2886.8
2016 Q3 2,598 5 2 1924.6
2016 Q2 5,695 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 4,235 2 0 472.3
2015 Q4 3,235 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,871 2 1 696.6
2015 Q2 3,163 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 3,834 3 0 782.5
2014 Q4 2,160 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,366 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,358 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 2,928 1 0 341.5
2013 Q4 2,394 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,975 1 0 506.3
2013 Q2 2,748 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 2,684 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,204 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,527 2 0 791.5
2012 Q2 2,287 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 3,245 2 1 616.3
2011 Q4 2,856 1 0 350.1
2011 Q3 3,185 4 1 1255.9
2011 Q2 4,696 2 0 425.9
2011 Q1 2,056 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 2,275 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 2,661 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 2,916 3 0 1028.8
2010 Q1 2,494 16 2 6415.4
2009 Q4 2,648 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 3,283 2 1 609.2
2009 Q2 2,237 2 0 894.1
2009 Q1 2,822 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 2,983 7 3 2346.6
2008 Q3 2,110 5 0 2369.7
2008 Q2 1,662 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 736 3 0 4076.1
2007 Q4 2,442 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,645 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 2,787 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 4,971 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 2,437 6 2 2462.0
2006 Q3 2,258 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,637 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 2,590 6 0 2316.6
2005 Q4 2,443 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 3,856 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 5,549 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 4,540 2 0 440.5
2004 Q4 1,981 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 3,747 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 4,864 3 0 616.8
2004 Q1 3,204 2 0 624.2
2003 Q4 2,883 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 4,198 11 7 2620.3
2003 Q2 4,452 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 4,346 3 0 690.3
2002 Q4 1,790 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 4,149 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 5,407 3 1 554.8
2002 Q1 3,840 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 4,554 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 5,352 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 5,787 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 6,114 1 1 163.6
2000 Q4 2,434 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 4,719 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 3,878 3 0 773.6
2000 Q1 2,581 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1999 · 1 incident

August 3, 1999 WA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
N A Degerstrom Inc · Struck by falling object

EE WAS ASSISTING IN PLACING A CONE MANTLE ONTO APORTABLE CRUSHING PLANT. ONE OF THE PICKING PINSSLIPPED OUT OF POSITION. THIS IN TURN LET THE MANTLE SWING TO ONE SIDE CAUSING THE 2ND PIN TO SL IP OUT OF POSITION. THE MANTLE THEN DROPPED LANDING ON THE EE'S RIGHT FOOT.

1986 · 1 incident

June 16, 1986 WA · Metal/Non-Metal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler POWERED HAULAGE
N A Degerstrom Inc · Fall from machine

CRUSHER OPERATI2N-OILER STANDING ON CONV LUBRICATING TOP ROLLER-CONV STARTED CAUSING HIM TO LOSE BALANCE JUMPED INTO BUNKER FOOT HIT BUNKER BOTTOM CAUSING SPRAINED ANKLE LEFT.