Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher #2 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Steven C Heaton
Boise, Ada County, ID  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1001643

Portable Crusher #2 has $30K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2004–2021
Latest incident
Jun 2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
121
citations
27
significant & substantial
$29,608
proposed penalties
$28,503
paid to date
96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,105 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
39
inspections on record
763
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: 763 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 #2 has $30K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$30K
proposed penalties
$29K
current assessed
$29K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
120 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-02.
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 2,066 2 0 968.1
2025 Q3 3,683 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 4,729 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 4,866 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,438 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,878 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 4,263 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,423 0 0 0.0
Show 96 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 499 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,430 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,597 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 2,042 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 815 1 0 1227.0
2022 Q1 2,070 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,177 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,705 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,097 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 3,292 1 0 303.8
2020 Q3 1,280 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 4,317 1 0 231.6
2020 Q1 2,191 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 3,751 1 0 266.6
2019 Q3 3,084 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 3,526 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 2,910 1 0 343.6
2018 Q4 2,572 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,150 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,861 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 2,774 3 1 1081.5
2017 Q4 192 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 3,418 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,692 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,012 2 1 1976.3
2016 Q4 754 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,704 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,364 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,250 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 828 22 6 26570.0
2015 Q3 2,643 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,619 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,417 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,177 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,702 8 5 2960.8
2014 Q2 4,236 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 639 2 0 3129.9
2013 Q4 2,188 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 3,049 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 3,457 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,005 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 899 4 1 4449.4
2012 Q3 1,621 1 0 616.9
2012 Q2 1,709 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 2,476 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 3,581 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 5,280 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 379 6 1 15831.1
2010 Q4 4,548 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 3,008 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,736 10 4 5760.4
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 5,338 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 2,168 6 1 2767.5
2008 Q4 4,490 2 0 445.4
2008 Q3 5,462 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 4,559 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 2,771 5 0 1804.4
2007 Q4 4,826 1 0 207.2
2007 Q3 6,211 11 2 1771.1
2007 Q2 3,739 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 3,671 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 4,283 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 6,162 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 4,923 2 0 406.3
2006 Q1 2,277 18 4 7905.1
2005 Q4 5,396 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 5,189 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 4,179 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 4,069 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 4,227 4 1 946.3
2004 Q3 5,187 1 0 192.8
2004 Q2 4,912 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 5,596 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 4,475 1 0 223.5
2003 Q3 5,039 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 2,048 3 0 1464.8
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 4,234 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 5,140 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 5,314 2 0 376.4
2002 Q1 776 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 3,756 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 5,186 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 4,206 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 3,604 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 4,406 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 4,425 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 5,321 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 778 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2021 · 1 incident

June 14, 2021 ID · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Western Construction Inc · Struck by falling object

Employee adjusting and pulling a sample. The sampler slid off the blocks and landed on employee's right thumb. Cut right thumb, received four stitches.

2020 · 1 incident

April 27, 2020 ID · Metal/Non-Metal crusher attendant/operator, pan feeder operator/worker HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Western Construction Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Lifting guard into place. Tweeked back. Ice the area and restrict movement and lifting.

2004 · 1 incident

March 1, 2004 ID · Metal/Non-Metal

Setting chute to screen plant. Chute was checked to insure it was secure. Crane was unhooked from chute. Hook caught chute as it was moving out of the way and dislodged the chute. Employee and chute fell to the ground appx. 3-4 feet. then fell over. Employees ribs were bruised/broke and two fingers dislocated.

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The full compliance file on Portable Crusher #2

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.