Mining Incidents

Portable Plant #3 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Curtis D Whitaker
Welda, Anderson County, KS  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1401793

Portable Plant #3 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2018
12
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,801
proposed penalties
$1,801
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
11
inspections on record
111
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: 111 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 $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
12 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-11-22.
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 3,057 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,453 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 4,316 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,338 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,296 2 1 1543.2
2024 Q3 1,419 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,748 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,754 0 0 0.0
Show 25 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,659 2 0 1205.5
2023 Q3 722 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,513 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,082 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,787 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,122 1 0 891.3
2022 Q2 828 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,344 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,314 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,394 3 0 2152.1
2021 Q2 1,755 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,592 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,289 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,410 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,581 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,780 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,205 2 0 1659.8
2019 Q3 912 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q1 1,108 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 762 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 641 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 18 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 142 2 1 14084.5
2017 Q4 85 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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