Mining Incidents

Portable Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by John L Fletcher
East Templeton, Worcester County, MA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1901205

Portable Plant has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 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 2011
21
citations
6
significant & substantial
$3,108
proposed penalties
$2,957
paid to date
95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $151 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
19
inspections on record
249
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: 249 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 has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$151
outstanding
21 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-04.
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 3,762 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,986 1 0 250.9
2025 Q2 3,501 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,334 1 1 299.9
2024 Q4 2,946 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,636 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,793 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,102 0 0 0.0
Show 52 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 3,647 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,719 1 0 268.9
2023 Q2 3,810 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,775 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 3,663 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3,068 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 4,102 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,569 1 0 280.2
2021 Q4 3,002 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,697 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,752 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 3,605 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 4,119 2 0 485.6
2020 Q3 3,564 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,663 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 3,318 2 0 602.8
2019 Q4 3,834 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,411 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,436 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,382 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,526 1 0 655.3
2018 Q3 2,142 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,193 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 627 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 2,835 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,327 4 2 3014.3
2017 Q2 1,930 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,708 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,587 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,566 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,936 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 2,342 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 2,547 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,338 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,370 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,139 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,393 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,442 1 0 693.5
2014 Q2 1,508 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,413 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,129 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,320 3 1 2272.7
2013 Q1 411 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,271 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,099 2 2 1819.8
2012 Q2 1,039 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 160 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,881 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 929 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 208 1 0 4807.7
2011 Q1 160 0 0 0.0

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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