Mining Incidents

Portable Operations Metal/Non-Metal

Debco Construction · Surface
Controlled by Lonnie E Simpson
Kooskia, Lewis And Clark County, MT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1002110

Portable Operations has $8K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
19
citations
7
significant & substantial
$8,363
proposed penalties
$7,363
paid to date
88% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,000 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
11
inspections on record
136
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: 136 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 Operations has $8K 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
19 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-09-01.
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
2024 Q3 202 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 755 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 290 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 284 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,520 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,480 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 360 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
Show 35 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q3 243 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q3 1,258 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 768 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 428 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 640 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,245 3 1 2409.6
2020 Q2 405 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 281 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,156 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,076 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 609 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 426 2 0 4694.8
2018 Q3 813 5 1 6150.1
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 541 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 837 2 1 2389.5
2016 Q3 687 1 0 1455.6
2016 Q2 772 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,104 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,520 6 4 3947.4
2009 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 0 0 0
2008 Q2 0 0 0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 0 0 0
2007 Q2 432 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.

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