Mining Incidents

Portable Plant #3 Metal/Non-Metal

STRATFORD, Hamilton County, IA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1302460

Portable Plant #3 has $3K 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 2018
7
citations
4
significant & substantial
$2,977
proposed penalties
$2,977
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
9
inspections on record
65
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: 65 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 #3 has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
7 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2021-07-19.
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 1,902 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,384 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
Show 30 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 515 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,795 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 106 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 593 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 732 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 0 0 0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 795 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,121 5 4 1602.1
2021 Q2 2,050 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 550 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,226 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,852 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 1,252 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,097 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,030 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 1,686 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,673 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,298 2 0 870.3
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 1,488 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,655 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,336 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 1,545 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 70 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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