Mining Incidents

Portable Plant #1 Metal/Non-Metal

Ashton Company Inc · Surface
Tucson, Pima County, AZ  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0202833

Portable Plant #1 has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1999–2001
Latest incident
Jun 2001
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
48
citations
13
significant & substantial
$4,837
proposed penalties
$4,593
paid to date
95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $244 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
21
inspections on record
292
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: 292 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 Plant #1 has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 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
47 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-12-07.
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
2022 Q2 384 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 8 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 30 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 154 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 88 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 3,570 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,976 0 0 0.0
Show 59 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2017 Q1 2,563 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,056 3 0 1459.1
2016 Q3 760 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 295 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 895 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 47 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,586 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,149 2 0 930.7
2014 Q2 855 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 811 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 2,514 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,382 1 0 419.8
2013 Q2 972 6 3 6172.8
2012 Q2 0 0 0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 0 1 0
2011 Q3 894 6 1 6711.4
2011 Q2 4,076 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q1 635 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 3,529 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 2,961 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 3,206 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 3,307 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 3,668 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 2,480 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 535 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 3,241 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 8,125 11 0 1353.8
2006 Q3 8,459 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 5,257 3 1 570.7
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 2,228 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 773 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,197 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 875 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 2,757 5 0 1813.6
2004 Q3 5,115 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 206 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 67 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2003 Q3 0 0 0
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 434 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 2,701 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 0 0 0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 245 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 655 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 0 0 0
2001 Q1 172 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 4,498 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 4,596 4 4 870.3
2000 Q2 5,296 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,072 6 4 5597.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2001 · 1 incident

June 27, 2001 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Ashton Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

A VISE WAS BEING USED & WHILE PULLING ON PIPE CRAMPER THE BASE OF VISE BROKE

1999 · 1 incident

November 18, 1999 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Ashton Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

ELEVATED STACKER BELT COLLAPSED WHEN CLAMPS FAILED WHILE ROTATING TIRES PINNING EE BETWEEN TIRE & ANGLE IRON OF MUD FLAP

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The full compliance file on Portable Plant #1

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.