Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher #2 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by William M Ruark
Meshoppen, Wyoming County, PA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3609828

Portable Crusher #2 has $2K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
14
citations
2
significant & substantial
$2,454
proposed penalties
$1,940
paid to date
79% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $514 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2010
17
inspections on record
145
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: 145 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 $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
14 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-08-06.
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 95 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 237 2 0 8438.8
2025 Q2 109 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 43 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 351 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 262 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 256 1 0 3906.2
Show 54 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 166 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 100 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 358 1 0 2793.3
2023 Q1 79 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 308 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 0 0 0
2022 Q2 273 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 183 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 283 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 132 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 174 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 358 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 75 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 74 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 203 1 0 4926.1
2019 Q4 297 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 46 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 211 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 185 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 408 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 160 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 125 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 76 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 271 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 127 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 53 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 193 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 246 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 118 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 280 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 400 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 597 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 160 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 380 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 100 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,092 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 561 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 826 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 519 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 545 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 493 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 11 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 76 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,285 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 664 1 0 1506.0
2011 Q3 738 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,201 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 2,003 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,263 7 2 5542.4
2010 Q3 749 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 2,021 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 110 0 0 0.0

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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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.