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Portable Crusher #4: 12 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Topeka, Shawnee County, KS  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1401780

Portable Crusher #4 has $1K 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
0
Years on record
—
Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
12
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,479
proposed penalties
$1,346
paid to date
91% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $133 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Mid-States Materials, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
12
inspections on record
120
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: 120 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 #4 has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
11 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $469 in penalties contested before the Commission, $0 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-09-07.
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.
16.7%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
8.3%
reasonably likely or greater
16.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 8.3% none, 8.3% low, 83.3% moderate, 0.0% 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 · 17% of citations on record
  • Stood as issued 1 · 50%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 50%
50%
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 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
100%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$469 proposed, $0 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 2022-06-12.
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
CENT 2018-0451 Withdrawal Gill 2019 $336 → $0
CENT 2022-0178 Dismissal Miller 2022 $133 → $0
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: 2023-09-07, 3 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
2023-09-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.32 1.37 0.23 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-09-07 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.16 Truck Driver
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. Mid-States Materials, LLC 2016 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 8
2025 3
2024 3
2023 4
2022 2
2021 3
2020 3
2019 3
2018 3
2017 5
2016 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher #4 sits in Shawnee County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Shawnee County, Kansas · Population 178,315
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$66,043
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 2,016 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 746 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 226 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 450 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,210 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 187 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 497 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 996 0 0 0.0
Show 29 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 462 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 954 1 0 1048.2
2023 Q2 983 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 133 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 60 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 60 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 438 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 960 1 1 1041.7
2021 Q2 698 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,323 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 910 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 994 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 202 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,249 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,315 1 0 760.5
2019 Q2 561 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 235 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 928 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 716 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,162 3 0 2581.8
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 505 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 301 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 570 6 1 10526.3
2017 Q1 624 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,710 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,338 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 691 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.