Portable Unit #4 Metal/Non-Metal
Farden Construction, Inc.
· Surface
Controlled by
Steve Farden
Maxbass,
Bottineau County,
ND
·
Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3200889
Portable Unit #4 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 2011
45
citations
13
significant & substantial
$7,006
proposed penalties
$7,006
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
23
inspections on record
265
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.Rate withheld: 265 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 Unit #4 has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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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
42 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-10.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
See also
the operator's enforcement record
Quarterly safety rates
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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 | 797 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q3 | 1,561 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q2 | 1,345 | 4 | 2 | 2974.0 |
| 2025 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024 Q4 | 603 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q3 | 958 | 6 | 3 | 6263.0 |
| 2024 Q2 | 658 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Q4 | 658 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q3 | 1,005 | 2 | 0 | 1990.0 |
| 2023 Q2 | 954 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q1 | 138 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q4 | 319 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q3 | 629 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q2 | 378 | 2 | 0 | 5291.0 |
| 2022 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2021 Q4 | 490 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q3 | 771 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q2 | 581 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2020 Q4 | 232 | 2 | 0 | 8620.7 |
| 2020 Q3 | 2,123 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q2 | 1,303 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2019 Q4 | 623 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q3 | 959 | 2 | 1 | 2085.5 |
| 2019 Q2 | 1,671 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2018 Q4 | 621 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q3 | 1,646 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q2 | 2,099 | 4 | 0 | 1905.7 |
| 2018 Q1 | 105 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q4 | 1,733 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q3 | 1,284 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q2 | 2,143 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2016 Q4 | 742 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q3 | 1,734 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q2 | 1,453 | 3 | 1 | 2064.7 |
| 2016 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2015 Q4 | 1,415 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q3 | 1,720 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q2 | 1,253 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q1 | 919 | 6 | 4 | 6528.8 |
| 2014 Q4 | 1,393 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q3 | 1,919 | 7 | 2 | 3647.7 |
| 2014 Q2 | 1,409 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q1 | 110 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q4 | 1,567 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q3 | 1,998 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q2 | 1,627 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q1 | 830 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q4 | 1,816 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q3 | 2,258 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q2 | 1,706 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q1 | 960 | 3 | 0 | 3125.0 |
| 2011 Q4 | 2,481 | 1 | 0 | 403.1 |
| 2011 Q3 | 1,624 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2011 Q2 | 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 Unit #4
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.