Mining Incidents

Portable Processing Equipment Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Ken Buesing
Rawlins, Carbon County, WY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0504961

Portable Processing Equipment has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 3 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 2011
7
citations
3
significant & substantial
$4,940
proposed penalties
$1,197
paid to date
24% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,743 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
2
inspections on record
26
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: 26 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 Processing Equipment has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 3 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
7 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-10-08.
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
2015 Q2 0 0 0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 1,864 6 3 3218.9
2014 Q3 14,011 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,811 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 579 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 0 0 0
Show 5 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2011 Q2 0 1 0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 585 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 474 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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