Mining Incidents

Portable Plant #4: 27 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Jay Smith
N. Las Vegas, Clark County, NV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2602475

Portable Plant #4 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
1
Years on record
2004
Latest incident
Nov 2004
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
27
citations
8
significant & substantial
$2,442
proposed penalties
$2,442
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
7
inspections on record
109
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: 109 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 #4 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
21 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2005-05-10.
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.
29.6%
significant & substantial
3.7%
high negligence or reckless
29.6%
reasonably likely or greater
74.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 96.3% moderate, 3.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Las Vegas Paving Corp 2001 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2005 5
2004 4
2003 5
2002 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Plant #4 sits in Clark County, Nevada, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Clark County, Nevada · Population 2,293,764
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$73,845
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
2005 Q4 2,338 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 978 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 4,723 10 4 2117.3
2005 Q1 1,134 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 803 6 3 7472.0
2004 Q2 904 2 0 2212.4
2003 Q2 1,287 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 3,030 0 0 0.0
Show 3 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2002 Q4 2,853 5 0 1752.5
2002 Q3 4,275 4 1 935.7
2002 Q2 656 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2004 · 1 incident

November 24, 2004 NV · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Las Vegas Paving Corp · Fall from machine

An ee doing maintenance on a stacker was thrown off the stacker by the plant operator failing to visually check the plant before starting the stacker, resulting in a back injury.