Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher #1002: 17 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Green River, Grand County, UT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2601858

Portable Crusher #1002 has $1K 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
9
Years on record
1990–2009
Latest incident
Mar 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
17
citations
6
significant & substantial
$1,177
proposed penalties
$1,205
paid to date
102% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
12
inspections on record
236
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: 236 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 #1002 has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
14 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2005-06-27.
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.
35.3%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
29.4%
reasonably likely or greater
52.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.9% low, 94.1% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2005-05-19, 21 years ago
50%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz42 over
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (7)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2005-05-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.7 1.18 1.44 Utility Man
2005-05-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.65 1.16 1.42 Utility Man
2003-02-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 1 0.33 Cleanup Man
2003-02-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 1.27 0.16 Oiler, Greaser
2001-06-28 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.12 Crusher Oper/Worker
2001-06-28 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 Oiler, Greaser
2001-06-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
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 #1002 recorded 9.21 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2005.

Injury rate, 2005
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.
9.21
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.21 cases per 100 workers.
In Utah, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.95 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.
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. Frehner Construction Company Inc 1983 to 2012
  2. Road and Highway Builders, LLC 2012 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2016 1
2015 5
2014 1
2013 1
2012 5
2011 3
2010 3
2009 5
2008 4
2007 5
2006 0
2005 11
2004 4
2003 7
2002 0
2001 4
2000 6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher #1002 sits in Grand County, Utah, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
Grand County, Utah · Population 9,697
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$62,521
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
2016 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,359 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 121 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
Show 38 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2012 Q3 94 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,802 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 340 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 17 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 311 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 681 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1,236 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 2,000 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 46 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 571 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,171 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 2,851 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 7,314 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 12,832 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,569 3 3 1912.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 2,154 2 0 928.5
2004 Q3 2,396 1 0 417.4
2004 Q2 1,766 1 0 566.3
2004 Q1 2,016 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,624 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 2,217 2 1 902.1
2003 Q2 1,264 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 2,650 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 0 0 0
2002 Q3 0 0 0
2002 Q2 0 0 0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 1,152 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,358 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,886 3 0 1590.7
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 1,628 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 4,280 3 2 700.9
2000 Q2 3,750 2 0 533.3
2000 Q1 1,224 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

9 on file

2009 · 1 incident

2005 · 1 incident

June 2, 2005 UT · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Frehner Construction Company Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Was holding slack out of chain with loader lifted belt chain; twisted and caught finger between the chain and the belt.

2000 · 1 incident

June 15, 2000 UT · Metal/Non-Metal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler STRIKING OR BUMPING
Frehner Construction Company Inc · Struck against stationary object

EE STATES HE WAS CLIMBING ON A STOPPED BELT TO REACH A GREASE FITTING AND CUT HIS LEFT LEG BELOW THE KNEE.

1999 · 1 incident

February 2, 1999 NV · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Frehner Construction Company Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

WHILE HE WAS SHOVELING UNDER A CONVEYOR BELT HE TWISTED HIS TORSO STRAINING HIS LOWER BACK.

1996 · 1 incident

November 13, 1996 NV · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor MACHINERY
Frehner Construction Company Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE STATES THAT HE WAS ADJUSTING AN IMPACTOR SETTING AND HIS HAND GOT CAUGHT BETWEEN THE WALL AND THE ROTOR

1994 · 1 incident

April 5, 1994 NV · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Frehner Construction Company Inc · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF SHOVELING ACCUMULATED MATERIAL FROM BEHIND THE SCREEN PLANT AND AROCK FELL FROM THE TOP OF THE SCREEN ABOVE HIM AND STRUCK HIM IN THE ARM.

1990 · 3 incidents

October 3, 1990 NV · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Frehner Construction Company Inc · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

EMPL TRYING TO STOP SAND LEAK IN DROP BOX CHUTE ON #1040 SHAKER SCREEN.THE CONVEYOR WAS RUNNING AT THE TIME AND AS HE PUSHED ON THE BELTING DEFLECTOR HIS HAD WAS CAUGHT WITH BELTING BY CONVEYO R BELT HEAD PULLEY AND WAS PULLED IN BETWEEN PULLEY AND BEARING BLOCK.HE WAS ABLE TO PULL ARM BOACK OUT OF THE ENTANGLEMENT.

August 31, 1990 NV · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Frehner Construction Company Inc · Struck against stationary object

EMPL HAD BEEN WORKING RPAIRING CONVEYOR BELT THAT WAS DAMAGED & WHEN HE WAS FINISHED MAKING REPAIRS HE STPPED ON ROCK CAUSING ANKLE TO BE TWISTED.

June 19, 1990 NV · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Frehner Construction Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

WORKER HAD RIGHT HAND IN BETWEEN LIFTING CHAIN AND CONVEYOR,CHAIN SLIPPED AND PINCHED HAND.