Mining Incidents

PORTABLE UNIT #4 Metal/Non-Metal

JANESVILLE, Rock County, WI  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4703709

PORTABLE UNIT #4 has $2K 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 2014
14
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,782
proposed penalties
$1,782
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
16
inspections on record
157
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: 157 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 $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
14 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2021-01-27.
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 1,123 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,572 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,498 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,316 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,182 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,437 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,192 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 822 0 0 0.0
Show 38 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,061 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,432 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,394 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,016 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,381 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,412 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,157 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 263 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,253 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,117 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,507 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,064 1 0 939.8
2020 Q4 1,043 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,398 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,822 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 560 4 0 7142.9
2019 Q4 880 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,184 1 0 844.6
2019 Q2 1,419 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 541 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,411 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,346 2 0 1485.9
2018 Q1 906 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 2,290 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,433 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,654 3 0 1813.8
2017 Q1 205 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 943 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,530 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,311 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 337 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,374 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,694 1 1 590.3
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 1,327 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,294 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,596 2 1 1253.1

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.

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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.