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Portable Crusher #2: 135 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Pamp Maiers
Moses Lake, Grant County, WA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4503024

Portable Crusher #2 has $24K 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
2
Years on record
1986–1998
Latest incident
Jul 1998
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
135
citations
24
significant & substantial
$24,483
proposed penalties
$20,292
paid to date
83% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,191 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See North Central Construction's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
63
inspections on record
1,006
inspection hours
13.4
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.
135 citations across 1,006 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘ A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2022-10-19.
On record since 2022.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher #2 has $24K 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.
$24K
proposed penalties
$20K
current assessed
$20K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
131 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $7K in penalties contested before the Commission, $3K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-01-08.
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.
18.3%
significant & substantial
9.2%
high negligence or reckless
18.3%
reasonably likely or greater
48.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.8% none, 14.5% low, 75.6% moderate, 9.2% 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.
2 citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 50%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 50%
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%
20%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$351 proposed, $281 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 2005-06-22.
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
WEST20010128M Settlement Melick 2001 $7K → $3K
WEST 2005-384M Dismissal Manning 2005 $351 → $281
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: 2026-04-22
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
20
samples
10
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz9
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (20)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-04-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2026-04-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2026-04-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2026-04-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2018-04-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-04-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.34 Truck Driver
2018-04-18 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 10 0.01 Cleanup Man
2018-04-18 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.24 10 0.02 Crusher Oper/Worker
2014-09-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.53 1.14 0.46 Truck Driver
2014-09-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.8 0.25 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-01-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 1.89 0.10 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-01-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.69 1.75 0.39 Truck Driver
2009-04-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.3 0.91 0.33 Truck Driver
2009-04-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.92 2.08 0.44 Front-end Loader Operator
2006-01-10 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.19 Truck Driver
2006-01-10 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.16 Crusher Oper/Worker
2006-01-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-07-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 1.6 0.16 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-07-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.69 1.02 0.68 Truck Driver
2001-03-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
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.
Ownership history
  1. North Central Construction 1984 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 7
2025 7
2024 7
2023 10
2022 8
2021 9
2020 11
2019 8
2018 6
2017 5
2016 5
2015 5
2014 4
2013 4
2012 4
2011 5
2010 2
2009 3
2008 3
2007 5
2006 5
2005 3
2004 3
2003 4
2002 3
2001 4
2000 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher #2 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 2,651 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 2,336 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 2,796 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,280 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,023 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,879 1 1 532.2
2024 Q4 2,445 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,321 0 0 0.0
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 2,265 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,124 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,202 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,604 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,315 2 0 863.9
2023 Q1 2,482 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,454 7 3 2852.5
2022 Q3 1,576 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,241 1 0 308.5
2022 Q1 2,559 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,212 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,385 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,471 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,508 1 0 663.1
2020 Q4 2,442 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,525 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,598 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 3,707 2 0 539.5
2019 Q4 2,767 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,552 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,417 1 0 413.7
2019 Q1 5,287 3 0 567.4
2018 Q4 2,731 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,362 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,560 4 0 1562.5
2018 Q1 2,461 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 2,399 3 1 1250.5
2017 Q3 2,379 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,568 3 1 1168.2
2017 Q1 2,009 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,945 4 2 1358.2
2016 Q3 2,107 2 0 949.2
2016 Q2 2,367 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 2,164 1 0 462.1
2015 Q4 2,188 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,464 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,214 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 2,033 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,457 3 0 1221.0
2014 Q3 2,879 11 2 3820.8
2014 Q2 3,122 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 3,140 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 2,346 2 0 852.5
2013 Q3 2,063 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 2,379 3 0 1261.0
2013 Q1 1,949 6 0 3078.5
2012 Q4 2,692 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,218 4 0 1803.4
2012 Q2 2,234 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 3,904 6 1 1536.9
2011 Q4 2,113 1 0 473.3
2011 Q3 2,068 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,233 3 0 2433.1
2011 Q1 88 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 147 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 278 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,314 4 0 3044.1
2010 Q1 136 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 680 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,274 1 0 784.9
2009 Q2 1,061 6 0 5655.0
2009 Q1 2,059 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,769 4 1 2261.2
2008 Q3 0 0 0
2008 Q2 196 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,182 2 0 1692.0
2007 Q4 1,291 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 2,959 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,542 2 0 1297.0
2007 Q1 1,322 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 933 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 857 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,689 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,635 2 0 1223.2
2005 Q4 734 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 0 0 0
2005 Q2 1,585 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,699 2 1 1177.2
2004 Q4 924 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,238 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,440 1 0 694.4
2004 Q1 1,434 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,611 1 0 620.7
2003 Q3 1,875 3 0 1600.0
2003 Q2 704 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 912 1 0 1096.5
2002 Q4 1,049 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 958 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 985 4 0 4060.9
2002 Q1 487 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,710 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 0 7 2
2001 Q2 1,408 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 1,546 1 0 646.8
2000 Q4 1,211 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 963 18 8 18691.6
2000 Q2 2,024 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,619 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1998 · 1 incident

July 22, 1998 WA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
North Central Construction · Fall from machine

WORKING ON CONVEYOR, SLIPPED AND FELL TO GROUND, STRAINED HIS BACK.

1986 · 1 incident