Mining Incidents

Portable Plant #1: 27 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Patricia Wirtjers
Sac City, Sac County, IA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1302025

Portable Plant #1 has $5K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
27
citations
7
significant & substantial
$4,589
proposed penalties
$4,589
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
20
inspections on record
100
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: 100 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 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
20 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-10-15.
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.
35.0%
significant & substantial
25.0%
high negligence or reckless
35.0%
reasonably likely or greater
70.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 15.0% low, 60.0% moderate, 25.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. J W Ready Mix & Construction Inc 1984 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 1
2024 3
2023 3
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 1
2018 2
2017 1
2016 2
2015 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Plant #1 sits in Sac County, Iowa, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Sac County, Iowa · Population 9,759
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$70,991
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
2026 Q2 40 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 25 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 20 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 180 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 25 5 3 200000.0
2024 Q3 28 0 0 0.0
Show 35 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 184 1 0 5434.8
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 20 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 88 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 50 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 32 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 52 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 32 5 1 156250.0
2022 Q2 140 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 35 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 65 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 20 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 15 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 10 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 32 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 40 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 119 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 24 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 20 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q1 0 1 0
2018 Q4 27 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 280 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 64 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 41 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 0 7 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.