Mining Incidents

Portable Plant #1 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.
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
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
2024 Q2 184 1 0 5434.8
2024 Q1 0 0 0
Show 33 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
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.

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