Mining Incidents

Portable Plant #5: 25 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Gale Lim
Blackfoot, Bingham County, ID  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1002206

Portable Plant #5 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 2010
25
citations
5
significant & substantial
$2,762
proposed penalties
$2,762
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2010
16
inspections on record
238
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: 238 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 #5 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
25 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-08-10.
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.
20.0%
significant & substantial
4.0%
high negligence or reckless
20.0%
reasonably likely or greater
60.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 4.0% low, 92.0% moderate, 4.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2017-10-04, 8 years ago
40%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz52 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (8)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2013-04-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.07 0.49 2.18 Crusher Oper/Worker
2013-04-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.6 0.22 2.73 Bobcat Operator
2017-10-04 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Laborer, Bullgang
2017-10-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-04-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.38 0.45 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-06-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-06-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 0.26 0.85 Crusher Oper/Worker
2010-06-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.4 0.78 0.51 Laborer, Bullgang

Area samples (mill and shop air)

Last sampled: 2016-09-20, 9 years ago
4
samples
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Area sampled
2016-09-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 SF OFF/LUNCH/STORE
2016-09-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 SF ORE TRANSFER
2014-07-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 SF ACTIVE MINING
2014-07-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 SF ACTIVE MINING
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Gale Lim Construction LLC 2010 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2023 6
2022 5
2021 8
2020 5
2019 1
2017 9
2016 6
2015 4
2014 3
2013 6
2012 7
2011 2
2010 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Plant #5 sits in Bingham County, Idaho, where the Census mining category is 0.8% 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.
Bingham County, Idaho · Population 48,993
0.8%
Mining share of county employment
$76,842
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
2023 Q4 2,338 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,437 1 1 291.0
2023 Q2 2,060 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,306 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,373 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,086 2 0 1841.6
2022 Q1 914 0 0 0.0
Show 33 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q4 2,118 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,176 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 80 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 810 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 2,144 2 0 932.8
2017 Q3 3,320 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,930 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 430 3 0 6976.7
2016 Q4 139 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,363 2 0 1467.4
2016 Q2 2,097 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,065 1 0 939.0
2015 Q1 133 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,486 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 20 1 0 50000.0
2013 Q4 1,820 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 540 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 868 6 3 6912.4
2013 Q1 608 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 5 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 5 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,102 2 0 951.5
2012 Q1 764 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 266 2 0 7518.8
2011 Q2 2 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,294 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 410 3 1 7317.1

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.