Mining Incidents

Portable Plant: 11 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Woodrock Inc · Surface
Watford City, Mckenzie County, ND  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3201075

Portable Plant has $1K 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 2019
11
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,439
proposed penalties
$1,288
paid to date
90% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $151 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
14
inspections on record
182
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: 182 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 $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$151
outstanding
11 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-17.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
18.2%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
18.2%
reasonably likely or greater
45.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 36.4% low, 63.6% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Woodrock Inc 2019 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 2
2024 3
2023 3
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Plant sits in McKenzie County, North Dakota, where the Census mining category is 16.5% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
McKenzie County, North Dakota · Population 14,280
16.5%
Mining share of county employment
$88,289
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
2026 Q2 0 0 0
2026 Q1 150 1 0 6666.7
2025 Q4 1,200 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,700 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,125 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 260 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 987 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,120 1 0 892.9
Show 20 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1,050 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 160 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 400 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 800 1 0 1250.0
2023 Q2 600 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 120 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 346 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,098 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,142 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 418 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,084 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,440 2 1 1388.9
2021 Q2 1,891 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,080 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,196 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 996 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 722 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 656 5 1 7622.0
2019 Q4 826 1 0 1210.7
2019 Q3 720 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.