Mining Incidents

PORTABLE CRUSHER: 18 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Ocon Inc/Recycle Aggregate · Surface
Controlled by Robert Johnnie
albany, Deschutes County, OR  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3503480

PORTABLE CRUSHER has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K 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
18
citations
7
significant & substantial
$4,051
proposed penalties
$275
paid to date
7% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,776 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
9
inspections on record
80
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: 80 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 $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$275
paid to date
$4K
outstanding
18 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2001-10-31.
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.
38.9%
significant & substantial
38.9%
high negligence or reckless
38.9%
reasonably likely or greater
66.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 11.1% low, 50.0% moderate, 38.9% 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: 2000-08-23, 26 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2000-08-23 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.12 Supervisor, Co. Official
2000-08-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.82 2.53 0.72 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. Ocon Inc/Recycle Aggregate 1999 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2003 1
2002 3
2001 4
2000 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

PORTABLE CRUSHER sits in Deschutes County, Oregon, 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.
Deschutes County, Oregon · Population 203,026
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$87,640
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
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2003 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 610 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,640 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 1,260 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 2,480 3 1 1209.7
2001 Q3 3,520 10 6 2840.9
2001 Q2 1,900 0 0 0.0
Show 4 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2001 Q1 1,980 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 880 5 0 5681.8
2000 Q2 2,080 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 580 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.