Mining Incidents

Portable Screener: 29 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Jason P McKeefry
Pulaski, WI, Brown County, WI  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4703617

Portable Screener has $4K 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 2011
29
citations
2
significant & substantial
$4,216
proposed penalties
$4,216
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
29
inspections on record
293
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: 293 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 Screener has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
28 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-11-12.
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.
7.1%
significant & substantial
10.7%
high negligence or reckless
7.1%
reasonably likely or greater
17.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 89.3% moderate, 10.7% 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: 2021-06-08, 5 years ago
3
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2021-06-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-01-31 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.21 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-03-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
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. McKeefry and Sons, Inc. 2011 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2025 1
2024 2
2023 2
2022 9
2021 5
2020 6
2019 4
2018 2
2017 1
2016 1
2015 1
2014 1
2013 1
2012 1
2011 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Screener sits in Brown County, Wisconsin, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Brown County, Wisconsin · Population 269,425
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$77,490
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
2025 Q2 66 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 524 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 864 1 0 1157.4
2024 Q3 734 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 944 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 794 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 635 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 667 0 0 0.0
Show 48 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q2 2,422 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,888 4 1 2118.6
2022 Q4 776 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 625 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 827 1 0 1209.2
2022 Q1 918 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 599 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 661 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 783 1 0 1277.1
2021 Q1 1,217 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 800 2 0 2500.0
2020 Q3 668 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 651 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 645 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 654 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 699 2 0 2861.2
2019 Q2 704 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 781 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 691 1 0 1447.2
2018 Q3 672 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 680 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 659 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 648 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 670 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 679 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 668 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 645 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 373 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 507 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 708 3 0 4237.3
2015 Q4 554 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 649 1 0 1540.8
2015 Q2 680 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 660 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 591 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 510 1 0 1960.8
2014 Q2 404 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 300 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 167 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 56 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 236 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 136 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 84 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 96 1 0 10416.7
2012 Q2 204 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 133 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 158 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 127 11 1 86614.2

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.