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Portable Crusher AC 600: 55 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Alexandria, Douglas County, MN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2103010

Portable Crusher AC 600 has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2001–2014
Latest incident
Jul 2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
55
citations
22
significant & substantial
$9,803
proposed penalties
$9,083
paid to date
93% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $720 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Central Specialties Inc's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
24
inspections on record
271
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: 271 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: 2013-07-31.
On record since 2013.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher AC 600 has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
54 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $4K in penalties contested before the Commission, $3K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2015-11-10.
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.
40.7%
significant & substantial
7.4%
high negligence or reckless
40.7%
reasonably likely or greater
70.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 24.1% low, 68.5% moderate, 7.4% 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.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 2% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 100%
100%
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 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
20%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$4K proposed, $3K 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 2014-05-20.
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
LAKE 2014-0467 Settlement Barbour 2015 $4K → $3K
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: 2012-08-07, 14 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (8)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2012-08-07 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 4.67 Supervisor, Co. Official
2012-08-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.41 0.8 0.51 Cleanup Man
2004-11-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2004-11-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.58 1.14 0.51 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-11-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-04-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.12 1.89 0.59 Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-04-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-04-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
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. Starry Construction Company Inc 1990 to 1997
  2. Central Specialties Inc 1997 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2017 2
2016 3
2015 4
2014 5
2013 5
2012 5
2011 4
2010 4
2009 4
2008 4
2007 4
2006 4
2005 4
2004 4
2003 4
2002 4
2001 4
2000 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher AC 600 sits in Douglas County, Minnesota, 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.
Douglas County, Minnesota · Population 39,354
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$77,264
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
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 58 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 60 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 60 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 60 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 58 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 541 2 2 3696.9
Show 63 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2015 Q3 2,082 3 2 1440.9
2015 Q2 1,462 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 58 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 800 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 3,261 2 0 613.3
2014 Q2 1,487 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 58 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,102 3 0 2722.3
2013 Q3 2,702 4 2 1480.4
2013 Q2 1,322 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 58 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,079 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,184 4 1 1831.5
2012 Q2 2,555 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 58 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,819 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,873 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,643 6 5 3651.9
2011 Q1 58 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,009 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 2,593 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,494 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 58 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,406 5 4 3556.2
2009 Q3 1,669 1 1 599.2
2009 Q2 2,578 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 58 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 488 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,938 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 918 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 88 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,067 3 1 2811.6
2007 Q3 2,277 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,799 3 0 1667.6
2007 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 2,094 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 2,079 1 1 481.0
2006 Q2 1,150 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,489 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 2,219 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,857 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 977 1 0 1023.5
2004 Q3 2,285 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,060 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,331 4 2 3005.3
2003 Q3 1,888 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,547 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,735 6 0 3458.2
2002 Q3 3,048 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,602 7 1 4369.5
2002 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,123 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,536 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,062 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 31 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 858 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,456 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,198 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 388 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2014 · 1 incident

July 21, 2014 MN · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Central Specialties Inc · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS PERFORMING MAINTENANCE ON EQUIPMENT WHEN HE STEPPED ONTO MOVING CONVEYOR, LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL APPROXIMATELY 3 FT.

2012 · 1 incident

September 17, 2012 MN · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Central Specialties Inc · Fall onto or against objects

Employee slipped while repairing conveyor belt, bumping and/or straining right shoulder.

2007 · 1 incident

September 26, 2007 MN · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Central Specialties Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee slipped on wet machine deck.

2001 · 1 incident

May 15, 2001 MN · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner POWERED HAULAGE
Central Specialties Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

CHANGING BEARINGS ON SCREEN, USING BOBCAT, BOBCAT ROLLED FORWARD PINNING EMPLOYEE BETWEEN SCREEN AND BOBCAT.