Mining Incidents

Portable Sand 1 Metal/Non-Metal

BARD Materials · Surface
Controlled by Tony Thier
Cascade, Dubuque County, IA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1302057

Portable Sand 1 has $7K 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 2000
64
citations
9
significant & substantial
$7,486
proposed penalties
$7,486
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
40
inspections on record
444
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: 444 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 Sand 1 has $7K 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
63 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-08-13.
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
2025 Q4 1,039 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,297 2 0 1542.0
2025 Q2 1,840 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 820 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,439 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,744 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
Show 96 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,313 6 2 4569.7
2023 Q3 1,862 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,794 3 1 1672.2
2023 Q1 229 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,140 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,695 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,217 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,340 7 1 5223.9
2021 Q3 2,142 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,357 4 0 1697.1
2021 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 605 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,305 1 1 433.8
2020 Q2 1,065 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 22 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 562 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,404 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,183 1 0 845.3
2019 Q1 22 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 811 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,300 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,273 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 268 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 918 2 0 2178.6
2017 Q3 1,540 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,400 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 60 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,160 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,366 4 0 2928.3
2016 Q2 1,524 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,215 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,714 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,996 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 913 3 1 3285.9
2014 Q3 2,183 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,396 4 1 2865.3
2014 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,124 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,622 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,803 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 25 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 765 1 0 1307.2
2012 Q3 1,309 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,246 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 471 1 1 2123.1
2011 Q3 1,338 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,015 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 804 2 1 2487.6
2010 Q3 1,272 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,204 2 0 1661.1
2010 Q1 107 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,091 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,174 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,202 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 290 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,228 1 0 814.3
2008 Q3 1,219 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,287 1 0 777.0
2008 Q1 94 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,673 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,872 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,831 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,092 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,819 1 0 549.8
2006 Q3 1,993 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,929 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,051 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,739 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 2,043 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,930 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,006 1 0 994.0
2004 Q4 1,769 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,959 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,906 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,010 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,617 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,835 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,495 2 0 1337.8
2003 Q1 957 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,609 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,649 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,893 12 0 6339.1
2002 Q1 800 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,233 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,209 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 2,277 1 0 439.2
2001 Q1 569 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,532 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,201 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 2,291 2 0 873.0
2000 Q1 242 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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The full compliance file on Portable Sand 1

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.