Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher Metal/Non-Metal

Mullinax Inc · Surface
Controlled by Nathan Mullinax
Buffalo, Johnson County, WY  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4801791

Portable Crusher has $6K 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
1
Years on record
2023
Latest incident
Sep 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
33
citations
8
significant & substantial
$5,723
proposed penalties
$5,723
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
29
inspections on record
464
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: 464 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 $6K 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
33 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-05.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2025 Q4 2,309 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,509 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,033 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,464 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,985 1 0 503.8
2024 Q3 4,261 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 6,356 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,751 3 0 799.8
Show 36 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 4,967 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 5,571 7 4 1256.5
2023 Q2 3,934 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 107 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 4,310 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 6,101 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,680 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,952 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 4,763 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 4,653 4 1 859.7
2021 Q2 5,273 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,039 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 4,439 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 4,162 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 5,344 1 0 187.1
2020 Q1 2,610 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,545 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 5,010 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,703 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 2,127 5 2 2350.7
2018 Q3 4,299 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 3,001 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,291 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 2,532 2 0 789.9
2017 Q3 4,176 1 0 239.5
2017 Q2 3,454 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,173 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,200 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,752 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,299 3 1 1304.9
2016 Q1 556 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 645 1 0 1550.4
2015 Q3 3,642 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,955 3 0 1015.2
2015 Q1 3,813 1 0 262.3
2014 Q4 1,978 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2023 · 1 incident

September 1, 2023 WY · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Mullinax Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The crew was moving an 80' wheeled conveyor to the side of the pile. The conveyor was pushed with a skid steer causing it to roll, it went over the chalk block. EE tried to stop it by holding the tire back with EE's body, EE's foot slipped and EE fell into the path of the wheel. It ran over EE's upper leg.

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