Mining Incidents

Portable No. 2 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Daniele R Sproule
Galena, Jo Daviess County, IL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1103024

Portable No. 2 has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 1 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 1999
17
citations
6
significant & substantial
$2,253
proposed penalties
$805
paid to date
36% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,448 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
11
inspections on record
89
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: 89 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 No. 2 has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$805
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
17 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-06-22.
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
2004 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,877 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 2 4 1 2000000.0
2004 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 99 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 0 0 0
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2003 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
Show 12 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2002 Q4 520 11 4 21153.8
2002 Q3 1,560 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 528 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 0 0 0
2001 Q3 360 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 0 0 0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 594 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 308 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,005 1 0 995.0
2000 Q1 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.

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The full compliance file on Portable No. 2

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.