Mining Incidents

Portable Plant #2 Metal/Non-Metal

HNS Inc · Surface
Controlled by Jeff Hines
Echo, Umatilla County, OR  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1002214

Portable Plant #2 has $101K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 7 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
111
citations
36
significant & substantial
$101,060
proposed penalties
$77,284
paid to date
76% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $23,776 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
32
inspections on record
452
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: 452 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 #2 has $101K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 7 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.
$101K
proposed penalties
$81K
current assessed
$77K
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
109 assessments are final orders; 7 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-02-27.
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 Q2 704 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1 1 0 1000000.0
2024 Q4 223 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 641 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,169 5 2 4277.2
2020 Q1 5,784 8 1 1383.1
2019 Q4 1,572 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 0 0 0
Show 30 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2019 Q1 1,411 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 3,669 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,472 1 0 288.0
2018 Q2 2,200 7 2 3181.8
2018 Q1 1,052 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 738 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 716 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 720 9 2 12500.0
2017 Q1 1,400 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,275 1 1 784.3
2016 Q3 1,746 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,406 10 5 7112.4
2015 Q4 163 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 3,052 10 3 3276.5
2015 Q2 1,770 10 4 5649.7
2015 Q1 4,320 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 3,400 13 2 3823.5
2014 Q3 3,780 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,840 1 0 260.4
2014 Q1 3,840 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 3,780 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 3,360 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 3,486 16 10 4589.8
2012 Q2 884 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,005 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 2,485 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 2,442 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 50 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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The full compliance file on Portable Plant #2

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.