Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher #5: 29 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Haas Sons Inc · Surface
Controlled by Steven Haas; Gary Haas
Gilman, WI, Taylor County, WI  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4703571

Portable Crusher #5 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 2010
29
citations
12
significant & substantial
$6,918
proposed penalties
$6,918
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
27
inspections on record
300
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: 300 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: 2020-10-28.
On record since 2020.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher #5 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
28 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-06-06.
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.
42.9%
significant & substantial
10.7%
high negligence or reckless
42.9%
reasonably likely or greater
46.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 10.7% low, 78.6% moderate, 10.7% 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: 2023-06-07, 3 years ago
20%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz71 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (8)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2020-04-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.83 0.66 1.26 Crusher Oper/Worker
2023-06-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-06-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.32 0.78 0.41 Crusher Oper/Worker
2020-11-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 Crusher Oper/Worker
2020-11-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-06-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.31 0.93 0.33 Crusher Oper/Worker
2017-06-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 0.59 0.32 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-08-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 0.65 0.29 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. John S. Olynick, Inc. 2009 to 2021
  2. Haas Sons Inc 2021 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 4
2025 3
2024 3
2023 3
2022 3
2021 3
2020 3
2019 3
2018 3
2017 3
2016 2
2015 3
2014 2
2013 2
2012 2
2011 2
2010 0
2009 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher #5 sits in Taylor County, Wisconsin, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Taylor County, Wisconsin · Population 19,972
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$63,142
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 1,435 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 240 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 2,474 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,681 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,146 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 502 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,098 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,713 0 0 0.0
Show 60 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 2,104 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 533 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,598 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,279 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,999 1 0 500.3
2023 Q1 93 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,007 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,427 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,600 1 0 384.6
2022 Q1 329 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 564 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,915 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 493 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 135 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 394 5 3 12690.4
2020 Q3 588 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 608 2 1 3289.5
2020 Q1 74 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 326 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 539 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 347 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 5 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 307 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 562 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 488 3 1 6147.5
2018 Q1 5 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 431 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 603 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 516 7 0 13565.9
2017 Q1 49 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 290 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 444 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 462 1 1 2164.5
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 479 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 658 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 552 1 0 1811.6
2015 Q1 27 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 274 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 502 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 473 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 268 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 569 2 2 3514.9
2013 Q2 338 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 713 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 691 4 3 5788.7
2012 Q2 974 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 258 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 661 1 1 1512.9
2011 Q2 33 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 0 1 0
2010 Q2 2 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 902 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.