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Portable Crushing Plant: 48 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by George Randall
Pine, Gila County, AZ  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0202970

Portable Crushing Plant has $5K 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
1
Years on record
2006
Latest incident
Dec 2006
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2004
48
citations
4
significant & substantial
$5,380
proposed penalties
$5,372
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $8 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Payson Concrete and Materials, Inc's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
39
inspections on record
398
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: 398 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 Crushing Plant has $5K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
48 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $651 in penalties contested before the Commission, $543 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-15.
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.
8.3%
significant & substantial
2.1%
high negligence or reckless
8.3%
reasonably likely or greater
60.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 14.6% low, 83.3% moderate, 2.1% 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.
5 citations taken to the federal commission · 10% of citations on record
  • Settled 4 · 80%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 20%
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 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
17%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$651 proposed, $543 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 2011-06-14.
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
WEST 2011-1107M Settlement Lesnick 2013 $651 → $543
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: 2025-10-15
33%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz41 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
Show the individual readings (7)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2020-12-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 0.17 1.06 Crusher Oper/Worker
2025-10-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-12-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.18 0.94 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-12-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-04-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-04-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.45 0.53 0.85 Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-04-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 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. Payson Concrete and Materials, Inc 2002 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 5
2025 3
2024 4
2023 4
2022 7
2021 6
2020 4
2019 2
2018 3
2017 2
2016 0
2015 4
2014 3
2011 3
2010 2
2009 5
2008 4
2007 3
2006 4
2005 3
2004 3
2003 6
2002 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Crushing Plant sits in Gila County, Arizona, where the Census mining category is 5.8% 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.
Gila County, Arizona · Population 53,610
5.8%
Mining share of county employment
$59,089
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 1,250 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 2,065 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 506 2 0 3952.6
2025 Q3 1,065 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 367 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 61 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 141 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 813 0 0 0.0
Show 72 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1,510 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,591 2 0 1257.1
2023 Q4 1,735 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 200 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 565 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 453 2 0 4415.0
2022 Q4 889 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,342 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,491 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,260 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,147 1 0 871.8
2021 Q3 1,619 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,520 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 491 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,031 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 847 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,569 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 198 1 0 5050.5
2019 Q3 997 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 780 5 0 6410.3
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 66 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 223 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 840 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 109 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 507 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,316 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,309 3 0 2291.8
2017 Q1 276 3 1 10869.6
2016 Q4 0 0 0
2016 Q3 0 0 0
2016 Q2 152 3 0 19736.8
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 860 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,604 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 740 4 0 5405.4
2014 Q4 622 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,235 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 72 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 784 4 2 5102.0
2010 Q3 241 1 0 4149.4
2010 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 38 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 836 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,569 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,927 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1,183 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,222 8 0 6546.6
2008 Q3 1,335 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 951 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 866 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 62 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,047 1 0 955.1
2006 Q4 754 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 462 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 443 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 287 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,416 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,203 5 1 4156.3
2005 Q2 283 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 0 0 0
2004 Q3 0 0 0
2004 Q2 2,002 3 0 1498.5
2004 Q1 2,206 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,248 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 2,500 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 2,143 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,713 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,571 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,412 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,576 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2006 · 1 incident

December 11, 2006 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Payson Concrete and Materials, Inc · Fall onto or against objects

Operator stepped out of control trailer & said he was hurrying & missed a step & fell. When falling he missed the handrail & hit his back on the stair step.