Portable Plant #101 has $2K 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
1
Years on record
2008
Latest incident
Oct 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2004
23
citations
4
significant & substantial
$2,026
proposed penalties
$2,026
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: 144 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 #101 has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
23 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-04-10.
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.
Health sampling
ⓘA sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.
Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘMany samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2007-08-15, 19 years ago
50%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz21 over
Show the individual readings (2)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2007-07-25
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1
0.78
1.28
Crusher Oper/Worker
2007-08-15
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.52
0.56
0.93
Crusher Oper/Worker
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2013
0
2012
1
2011
2
2010
1
2009
2
2008
2
2007
3
2006
1
2005
1
2004
6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Portable Plant #101 sits in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, 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.
Kalamazoo County, Michigan · Population 261,437
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$70,525
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
2013 Q1
0
0
0
2012 Q4
0
0
0
2012 Q3
0
0
0
2012 Q2
0
4
0
2012 Q1
135
0
0
0.0
2011 Q4
313
0
0
0.0
2011 Q3
343
0
0
0.0
2011 Q2
0
0
0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2011 Q1
130
0
0
0.0
2010 Q4
24
0
0
0.0
2010 Q3
32
0
0
0.0
2010 Q2
15
0
0
0.0
2010 Q1
0
0
0
2009 Q4
47
0
0
0.0
2009 Q3
86
0
0
0.0
2009 Q2
196
0
0
0.0
2009 Q1
743
3
0
4037.7
2008 Q4
1,592
0
0
0.0
2008 Q3
545
1
0
1834.9
2008 Q2
0
0
0
2008 Q1
0
0
0
2007 Q4
387
0
0
0.0
2007 Q3
2,692
7
4
2600.3
2007 Q2
941
0
0
0.0
2007 Q1
193
0
0
0.0
2006 Q4
86
0
0
0.0
2006 Q3
14
0
0
0.0
2006 Q2
0
0
0
2006 Q1
1,248
0
0
0.0
2005 Q4
1,578
6
0
3802.3
2005 Q3
0
0
0
2005 Q2
54
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
194
0
0
0.0
2004 Q4
4,606
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
2,026
0
0
0.0
2004 Q2
3,333
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
3,324
2
0
601.7
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2008 · 1 incident
October 23, 2008MI · Metal/Non-Metalbelt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Employee was performing maintenance work on a bulldozer. He was removing the belly pan when it swung down, pinching his right hand between the pan and the track. He broke his right ring finger and cut the palm of his right hand.