Portable Unit #5 Metal/Non-Metal
Farden Construction Inc
· Surface
Controlled by
Steve Farden
Maxbass,
Bottineau County,
ND
·
Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3200162
Portable Unit #5 has $9K 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
68
citations
22
significant & substantial
$8,704
proposed penalties
$8,704
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
43
inspections on record
587
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: 587 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 #5 has $9K 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.$9K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
63 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-05-28.
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 | 931 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q3 | 2,119 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q2 | 1,434 | 14 | 3 | 9762.9 |
| 2025 Q1 | 357 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q4 | 1,133 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q3 | 2,142 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q2 | 900 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Q4 | 647 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q3 | 1,417 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q2 | 2,233 | 2 | 1 | 895.7 |
| 2023 Q1 | 528 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q4 | 1,005 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q3 | 1,572 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q2 | 1,581 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q1 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q4 | 1,273 | 2 | 1 | 1571.1 |
| 2021 Q3 | 2,237 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q2 | 1,191 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2020 Q4 | 953 | 2 | 0 | 2098.6 |
| 2020 Q3 | 945 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2020 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2019 Q4 | 612 | 4 | 0 | 6535.9 |
| 2019 Q3 | 1,270 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q2 | 1,514 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2018 Q4 | 527 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q3 | 1,130 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q2 | 1,067 | 6 | 2 | 5623.2 |
| 2018 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2017 Q4 | 980 | 1 | 0 | 1020.4 |
| 2017 Q3 | 723 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q2 | 805 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q1 | 224 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q4 | 901 | 3 | 3 | 3329.6 |
| 2016 Q3 | 1,888 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q2 | 1,812 | 4 | 2 | 2207.5 |
| 2016 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2015 Q4 | 1,550 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q3 | 2,142 | 4 | 2 | 1867.4 |
| 2015 Q2 | 2,722 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q1 | 1,751 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q4 | 2,233 | 3 | 1 | 1343.5 |
| 2014 Q3 | 1,859 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q2 | 2,435 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q1 | 1,774 | 2 | 1 | 1127.4 |
| 2013 Q4 | 1,767 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q3 | 2,181 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q2 | 2,084 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q1 | 555 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q4 | 1,936 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q3 | 2,696 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q2 | 2,435 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q1 | 838 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2011 Q4 | 1,671 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2011 Q3 | 1,651 | 1 | 1 | 605.7 |
| 2011 Q2 | 905 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2011 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2010 Q4 | 1,021 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2010 Q3 | 1,421 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2010 Q2 | 971 | 1 | 1 | 1029.9 |
| 2010 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2009 Q4 | 1,170 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2009 Q3 | 1,452 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2009 Q2 | 1,332 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2009 Q1 | 496 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2008 Q4 | 1,305 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2008 Q3 | 1,555 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2008 Q2 | 1,957 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2008 Q1 | 340 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2007 Q4 | 1,099 | 1 | 1 | 909.9 |
| 2007 Q3 | 1,497 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2007 Q2 | 1,209 | 1 | 0 | 827.1 |
| 2007 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2006 Q4 | 1,114 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2006 Q3 | 1,345 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2006 Q2 | 1,309 | 2 | 1 | 1527.9 |
| 2006 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2005 Q4 | 1,263 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2005 Q3 | 1,690 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2005 Q2 | 1,132 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2005 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2004 Q4 | 1,066 | 2 | 0 | 1876.2 |
| 2004 Q3 | 1,441 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2004 Q2 | 1,109 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2004 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2003 Q4 | 1,014 | 1 | 0 | 986.2 |
| 2003 Q3 | 1,437 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2003 Q2 | 878 | 2 | 1 | 2277.9 |
| 2003 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2002 Q4 | 917 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2002 Q3 | 1,337 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2002 Q2 | 360 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2002 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2001 Q4 | 780 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2001 Q3 | 1,634 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2001 Q2 | 925 | 4 | 1 | 4324.3 |
| 2001 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2000 Q4 | 500 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2000 Q3 | 3,137 | 1 | 0 | 318.8 |
| 2000 Q2 | 798 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2000 Q1 | 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 #5
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.