Mining Incidents

Portable Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by John L Fletcher
GARDNER, Worcester County, MA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1901229

Portable Plant has $7K 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 2012
47
citations
15
significant & substantial
$7,263
proposed penalties
$7,263
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
24
inspections on record
289
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: 289 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 $7K 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
47 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-14.
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 1,451 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,224 1 0 817.0
2025 Q2 1,127 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,131 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,224 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,177 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
Show 47 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,102 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,221 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,025 1 0 975.6
2023 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,816 2 0 1101.3
2022 Q3 1,891 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,899 3 0 1579.8
2022 Q1 41 3 1 73170.7
2021 Q4 1,332 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 820 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,933 3 2 1552.0
2021 Q1 641 1 0 1560.1
2020 Q4 1,247 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 623 1 0 1605.1
2020 Q2 1,357 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,110 2 1 1801.8
2019 Q4 1,321 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,283 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,346 2 0 1485.9
2019 Q1 1,263 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,289 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,321 2 1 1514.0
2018 Q2 1,313 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,195 5 3 4184.1
2017 Q4 1,280 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,742 4 1 1458.8
2017 Q2 3,193 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,566 5 2 1948.6
2016 Q4 2,654 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,474 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,828 2 0 1094.1
2016 Q1 2,334 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,314 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 3,203 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,959 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,191 1 0 839.6
2014 Q4 1,922 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,177 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,169 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,167 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,290 3 1 2325.6
2013 Q3 1,403 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,082 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 176 1 0 5681.8
2012 Q4 570 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,245 5 3 4016.1

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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