Mining Incidents

Portable Desander: 4 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Doug Walterscheid
Channing, Oldham County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4105365

Portable Desander has $484 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
2
Years on record
2020–2021
Latest incident
Feb 2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2018
4
citations
0
significant & substantial
$484
proposed penalties
$484
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
4
inspections on record
32
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: 32 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 Desander has $484 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.
$484
proposed penalties
$484
current assessed
$484
paid to date
$0
outstanding
4 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-10-08.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
25.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. J. Lee Milligan, Inc. 2018 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2021 1
2020 8
2019 8
2018 11
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Desander sits in Oldham County, Texas, 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.
Oldham County, Texas · Population 2,097
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$76,402
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
2021 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,865 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,341 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,805 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 3,577 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 3,023 2 0 661.6
2019 Q3 2,580 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,570 0 0 0.0
Show 3 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2019 Q1 3,514 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 5,886 2 0 339.8
2018 Q3 4,459 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2021 · 1 incident

February 10, 2021 TX · Metal/Non-Metal groundman, yardman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
J. Lee Milligan, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Walking around the plant site, stepped on uneven ground/rocks, twisting. X-rays showed fractured ankle.

2020 · 1 incident

November 14, 2020 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
J. Lee Milligan, Inc. · Struck against stationary object

Were replacing a conveyor belt on sander, employee was using screwdriver to travel or rotate belt when hand slipped off striking pulley resulting in stitches to little finger and ring finger on left hand.