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PORTABLE CRUSHER: 162 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Lonnie Anderson
Great Falls, Cascade County, MT  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2401007

PORTABLE CRUSHER has $35K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2016–2025
Latest incident
Jul 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
162
citations
39
significant & substantial
$34,540
proposed penalties
$33,108
paid to date
96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,432 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See United Materials Of Great Falls Inc's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
57
inspections on record
843
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: 843 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 $35K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2 outstanding across 3 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.
$35K
proposed penalties
$33K
current assessed
$33K
paid to date
$2
outstanding
160 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $14K in penalties contested before the Commission, $13K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-15.
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.
24.2%
significant & substantial
5.6%
high negligence or reckless
24.2%
reasonably likely or greater
35.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 13.0% low, 81.4% moderate, 5.6% 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.
14 citations taken to the federal commission · 9% of citations on record
  • Settled 13 · 93%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 7%
89%
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 9 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
10%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$14K proposed, $13K 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 2018-04-03.
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
WEST 2012-1329M Settlement Lesnick 2014 $13K → $12K
WEST 2018-0313 Settlement Lesnick 2018 $1K → $544
WEST 2017-0191 Dismissal Lesnick 2017 $127 → $127
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: 2025-10-15
20%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
21
samples
10
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz102 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg10
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (21)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2002-11-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.78 0.38 2.05 Front-end Loader Operator
2000-10-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.43 0.36 1.19 Cleanup Man
2025-10-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2025-10-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2018-02-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2018-02-07 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.18 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-04-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 1.12 0.25 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-04-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.3 0.43 Cleanup Man
2015-04-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2010-09-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2010-09-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-10-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-10-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2004-10-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-11-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.18 0.78 Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-11-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.96 0.14 Laborer, Bullgang
2001-12-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.22 0.77 Cleanup Man
2001-12-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.74 2.4 0.31 Front-end Loader Operator
2000-10-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2000-10-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.7 1.41 0.50 Front-end Loader Operator
2000-10-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.42 0.31 Crusher Oper/Worker
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 recorded 9.08 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ 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.
9.08
total case rate
9.08
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Montana, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.69 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.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2025 * 9.08 9.08 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2017 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2016 * 7.96 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
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. Northern Materials Company 1950 to 1982
  2. United Materials Of Great Falls Inc 1983 to 1987
  3. United Materials Of Great Falls Inc 1988 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 11
2025 12
2024 35
2023 27
2022 29
2021 26
2020 31
2019 17
2018 20
2017 21
2016 19
2015 18
2014 19
2013 17
2012 3
2011 3
2010 4
2009 3
2008 4
2007 4
2006 6
2005 6
2004 5
2003 4
2002 13
2001 5
2000 9
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

PORTABLE CRUSHER sits in Cascade County, Montana, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
Cascade County, Montana · Population 84,601
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$66,203
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 5,340 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 6,128 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 6,275 2 0 318.7
2025 Q3 5,549 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 6,215 5 0 804.5
2025 Q1 3,977 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4,815 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 5,596 0 0 0.0
Show 96 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 7,310 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,319 2 0 602.6
2023 Q4 3,986 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 7,616 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 4,817 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,207 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 4,447 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 8,323 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 7,343 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,954 1 0 252.9
2021 Q4 1,950 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 6,844 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 6,863 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 5,838 6 0 1027.7
2020 Q4 6,249 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 9,712 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 9,266 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 5,832 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 4,629 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 6,976 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 7,173 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,923 4 2 2080.1
2018 Q4 6,125 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 4,239 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 5,888 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 3,009 2 1 664.7
2017 Q4 6,950 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 8,566 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 9,277 11 0 1185.7
2017 Q1 4,115 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 6,174 7 3 1133.8
2016 Q3 7,399 2 0 270.3
2016 Q2 6,190 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 5,351 7 3 1308.2
2015 Q4 3,981 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 5,735 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 5,470 3 1 548.4
2015 Q1 3,383 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 3,856 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 5,257 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 5,167 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 2,697 2 0 741.6
2013 Q4 3,215 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 4,806 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 5,182 22 6 4245.5
2013 Q1 1,520 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 352 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 668 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 464 21 7 45258.6
2012 Q1 399 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 826 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 736 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 439 18 6 41002.3
2011 Q1 68 1 0 14705.9
2010 Q4 199 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 808 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 840 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 167 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 379 7 2 18469.7
2009 Q3 690 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 608 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 321 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 440 3 0 6818.2
2008 Q3 892 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,030 4 1 3883.5
2008 Q1 187 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 564 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,389 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 735 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 562 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,842 3 0 1628.7
2006 Q3 2,936 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 2,473 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,720 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 2,433 3 0 1233.0
2005 Q3 2,942 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,225 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,010 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,580 1 0 632.9
2004 Q3 1,976 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,799 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,743 1 0 573.7
2003 Q4 1,367 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,644 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,735 5 2 2881.8
2003 Q1 1,567 1 1 638.2
2002 Q4 3,254 1 0 307.3
2002 Q3 6,320 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 4,341 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 3,998 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,527 2 0 1309.8
2001 Q3 2,227 4 0 1796.1
2001 Q2 961 5 0 5202.9
2001 Q1 1,159 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 2,931 1 1 341.2
2000 Q1 1,623 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2025 · 1 incident

July 1, 2025 MT · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
United Materials Of Great Falls Inc · Struck against stationary object

Operator wasn't wearing EE's seat belt. EE hit a bump in the cut, and that caused EE to come in contact with the can controller.

2016 · 1 incident

May 10, 2016 MT · Metal/Non-Metal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
United Materials Of Great Falls Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Maintenance day on crusher due to rain. While miner was changing a return roller, the frame of the roller fell striking finger tip.