Portable Plant #1 has $447 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
11
Years on record
1990–2003
Latest incident
Apr 2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
3
citations
2
significant & substantial
$447
proposed penalties
$447
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
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: 91 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 $447 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.
$447
proposed penalties
$447
current assessed
$447
paid to date
$0
outstanding
3 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2000-09-22.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Portable Plant #1 recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2002.
Injury rate, 2002
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.17 and the all-US-mining average was 5.05 cases per 100 workers.
In Arkansas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.04 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2002 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2001 *
4.43
0.00
0.000
2000 *
4.38
0.00
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2006
0
2005
0
2003
8
2002
14
2001
11
2000
11
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Portable Plant #1 sits in White County, Arkansas, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
White County, Arkansas · Population 77,395
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$53,435
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
EE WAS USING A 20 LB HAMMER TO KNOCK OUT A BOWL LINER ON FRIDAY. HIS RIGHT SHOULDER WAS SORE. ON MONDAY & WEDNESDAY THE PLANT HAD (3) ROCK JAMS. EE HELPED TO MANUALLY REMOVE THE JAMMED ROCKS. EE DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION UNTIL 4/10/03.
2001 · 1 incident
June 22, 2001AR · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
EE WAS HOLDING A ROUND BAR 1" X 48" THAT WAS USED TO DRIVE WEDGES OUT OF CONE LINER. HIS LITTLE FINGR ON HIS RIGHT HAND WAS MASHED WHEN THE BAR SLIPPED WHILE BEING STRUCK WITH A HAMMER BY ANOT HER EE.
LOADING SHOT ROCK AT THE BASE OF HIGHWALL WITH FRONT END LOADER. JOLTED WHEN BUCKET HIT A LEDGE HIDDEN BY MATERIAL BEING LOADED. RUPTURED DISC IN LOWER BACK.