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Portable Crusher: 90 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Collinston, Box Elder County, UT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4202111

Portable Crusher has $31K 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
4
Years on record
2004–2024
Latest incident
Aug 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
90
citations
21
significant & substantial
$30,547
proposed penalties
$30,547
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Suncore Construction and Materials Inc.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
41
inspections on record
529
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: 529 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘ A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2010-11-03.
On record since 2010.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher has $31K 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.
$31K
proposed penalties
$31K
current assessed
$31K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
89 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2017-10-31.
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.
23.6%
significant & substantial
4.5%
high negligence or reckless
23.6%
reasonably likely or greater
75.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 2.2% low, 93.3% moderate, 4.5% 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: 2017-11-01, 8 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
10
samples
6
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz6
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
Show the individual readings (10)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2017-11-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-11-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2013-08-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-08-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2004-10-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.64 0.85 0.75 Cleanup Man
2004-10-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.43 0.73 0.59 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-10-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 0.65 0.38 Laborer, Bullgang
2002-01-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.39 0.86 0.45 Laborer, Bullgang
2002-01-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 0.82 0.29 Bulldozer Operator
2002-01-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 0.84 0.23 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.

Portable Crusher recorded 17.18 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2007.

Injury rate, 2007
ⓘ 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.
17.18
total case rate
8.59
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.30 and the all-US-mining average was 3.77 cases per 100 workers.
In Utah, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.03 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
2007 * 17.18 8.59 0.000
2006 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2005 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2004 * 9.44 9.44 0.000
2003 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2002 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2001 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2000 * 0.00 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. Suncore Construction and Materials Inc. 1994 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2024 3
2020 3
2019 4
2018 5
2017 3
2016 4
2015 3
2014 0
2013 6
2012 13
2011 16
2010 14
2009 11
2008 14
2007 12
2006 11
2005 13
2004 11
2003 10
2002 9
2001 10
2000 10
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher sits in Box Elder County, Utah, where the Census mining category is 1.1% 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.
Box Elder County, Utah · Population 59,725
1.1%
Mining share of county employment
$77,865
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
2024 Q4 1,244 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,556 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 425 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 781 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 38 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,750 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 669 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 897 0 0 0.0
Show 61 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2017 Q4 530 2 1 3773.6
2016 Q2 366 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 100 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 747 2 1 2677.4
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 333 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 646 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 15 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,049 4 0 3813.2
2012 Q4 1,544 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,619 2 1 1235.3
2012 Q2 2,145 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,413 1 0 707.7
2011 Q4 2,927 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 3,027 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 3,396 1 0 294.5
2011 Q1 3,583 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 2,989 2 1 669.1
2010 Q3 2,841 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 2,486 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 3,961 2 0 504.9
2009 Q4 127 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 2,229 1 0 448.6
2009 Q1 3,483 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 602 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 6,214 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 5,176 10 4 1932.0
2008 Q1 5,135 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 5,241 2 1 381.6
2007 Q3 6,374 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 5,707 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 5,960 6 2 1006.7
2006 Q4 5,856 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 5,467 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 6,168 5 2 810.6
2006 Q1 6,378 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 5,293 5 1 944.6
2005 Q3 7,381 5 1 677.4
2005 Q2 5,065 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 4,692 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 4,448 1 0 224.8
2004 Q3 5,100 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 6,809 4 0 587.5
2004 Q1 4,828 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 5,424 4 0 737.5
2003 Q3 5,015 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 4,854 3 0 618.0
2003 Q1 5,781 2 0 346.0
2002 Q4 5,192 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 6,626 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 5,443 3 2 551.2
2002 Q1 5,684 3 0 527.8
2001 Q4 6,863 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 5,208 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 5,896 6 0 1017.6
2001 Q1 4,735 4 0 844.8
2000 Q4 6,471 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 6,004 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 8,251 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 3,983 8 4 2008.5
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2024 · 1 incident

August 30, 2024 UT · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Suncore Construction and Materials Inc. · Struck by falling object

Employee was assembling legs for conveyor belt on portable crusher. Leg fell out of EE's hands and struck EE's left foot and ankle. Contusion to left foot.

2007 · 2 incidents

July 3, 2007 UT · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Suncore Construction and Materials Inc. · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Miner was changing a v-belt on a cone screen. He was rolling the belt on the pulley and pinched his thumb between the belt and pulley. He had placed his thumb in the wrong location. As a result he received a laceration to his thumb. During the investigation it was found that LO/TO was being used as well as necessary PPE.

May 24, 2007 UT · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Suncore Construction and Materials Inc. · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Miner trying to free up rock stuck in machinery. Standing on material, material shifted when rock dislodged, his ankle smashed between couple of rocks. Reason for late filing, conflicting stories reported by miner during investigation. Not hospitalized-observation & time off. Before date of inj EE scheduled day off 6/25, 1 holiday 6/28.

2004 · 1 incident

September 27, 2004 UT · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
Suncore Construction and Materials Inc. · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON AGGREGATE CONVEYOR BELT. WHEN HE JUMPED OFF BELT, AIR GUN HOSE GOT CAUGHT ON RAIL. AIR GUN HIT HIM ON HIS HEAD AFTER HE JUMPED FROM BELT.