Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher: 22 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Dean Cumber
Park Rapids, Hubbard County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103387

Portable Crusher has $3K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
22
citations
2
significant & substantial
$2,544
proposed penalties
$2,544
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
29
inspections on record
215
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: 215 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 has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
21 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-10-16.
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.
9.1%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
9.1%
reasonably likely or greater
59.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 27.3% low, 72.7% 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: 2019-05-29, 7 years ago
5
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (5)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2019-05-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2019-05-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 Front-end Loader Operator
2012-08-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2012-08-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2009-11-03 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. Cumber Construction Inc 2003 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 3
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 3
2018 2
2017 3
2016 2
2015 3
2014 3
2013 3
2012 3
2011 2
2010 3
2009 3
2008 3
2007 3
2006 3
2005 2
2004 2
2003 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher sits in Hubbard County, Minnesota, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Hubbard County, Minnesota · Population 21,700
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$70,622
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 264 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 276 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 843 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 503 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 246 2 0 8130.1
2024 Q3 410 0 0 0.0
Show 82 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 218 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 555 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 259 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 84 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 365 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 149 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 112 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 410 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 328 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 145 2 0 13793.1
2020 Q3 400 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 211 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 96 1 0 10416.7
2019 Q3 757 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 271 1 0 3690.0
2018 Q4 154 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 540 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 356 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 222 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 725 1 0 1379.3
2017 Q2 430 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 196 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 331 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 440 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 234 2 0 8547.0
2015 Q3 834 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 547 3 1 5484.5
2015 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 257 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 630 2 0 3174.6
2014 Q2 204 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 257 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 589 1 0 1697.8
2013 Q2 141 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 122 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 716 1 0 1396.6
2012 Q2 530 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 719 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 295 2 0 6779.7
2011 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 193 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 700 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 273 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 241 2 1 8298.8
2009 Q3 653 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 260 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 238 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 695 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 330 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 116 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 617 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 410 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 540 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 388 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 201 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 81 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 201 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 161 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 0 0 0
2004 Q3 120 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 980 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 1,720 1 0 581.4
2003 Q3 1,200 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.