Mining Incidents

Portable Plant #4 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.
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.

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