Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher: 56 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Bear Creek Gravel · Surface
Controlled by Aaron B Potts
Lamoure, La Moure County, ND  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3200723

Portable Crusher has $7K 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 2000
56
citations
20
significant & substantial
$7,323
proposed penalties
$7,323
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
41
inspections on record
460
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: 460 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 $7K 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
56 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-19.
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.
35.7%
significant & substantial
3.6%
high negligence or reckless
35.7%
reasonably likely or greater
60.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 3.6% low, 92.9% moderate, 3.6% 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: 2010-09-14, 15 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
1
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2010-09-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 1.04 0.16 Front-end Loader Operator

Area samples (mill and shop air)

Last sampled: 2014-05-13, 12 years ago
1
samples
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Area sampled
2014-05-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 SF ORE PROCESSING
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. Bear Creek Gravel 1991 to 2009
  2. Bear Creek Gravel, Inc. 2010 to 2021
  3. Bear Creek Gravel 2021 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 2
2024 1
2023 2
2022 2
2021 3
2020 1
2019 3
2018 4
2017 4
2016 4
2015 3
2014 3
2013 7
2012 7
2011 7
2010 4
2009 3
2008 3
2007 3
2006 3
2005 4
2004 2
2003 1
2002 1
2001 1
2000 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher sits in LaMoure County, North Dakota, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
LaMoure County, North Dakota · Population 4,107
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$70,263
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 900 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 1,121 4 1 3568.2
2025 Q3 1,492 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,134 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 720 1 1 1388.9
2024 Q3 1,438 0 0 0.0
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 1,101 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,415 4 3 2826.9
2023 Q2 730 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 561 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,406 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 904 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 755 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 885 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,177 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 474 2 0 4219.4
2020 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 151 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,575 1 1 634.9
2019 Q2 1,159 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,223 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,954 3 0 1535.3
2018 Q2 1,402 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 527 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,087 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 773 1 0 1293.7
2017 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,163 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,134 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,268 2 1 1577.3
2016 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 214 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,566 1 0 638.6
2015 Q2 249 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,056 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,967 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,263 3 2 2375.3
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 2,246 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 5,293 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 3,184 1 0 314.1
2013 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,122 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 4,892 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 4,386 1 0 228.0
2012 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 2,683 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 3,754 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,789 1 0 358.6
2011 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 2,161 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 2,477 5 2 2018.6
2010 Q2 1,680 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 859 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,231 1 0 812.3
2009 Q2 790 6 0 7594.9
2009 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 550 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,653 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,719 3 1 1745.2
2008 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,082 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,563 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,611 1 0 620.7
2007 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,071 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,430 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 926 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 789 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,841 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,124 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 124 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 105 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 765 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 421 3 0 7125.9
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 175 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 229 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 0 3 2
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 79 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 111 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 350 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 350 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 470 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 360 3 2 8333.3
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 150 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 500 6 4 12000.0
2000 Q2 45 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 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.