Mining Incidents

Portable Wash Plant #1 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Douglas Ims
Medford, Steele County, MN  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2103760

Portable Wash Plant #1 has $1K 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 2012
11
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,412
proposed penalties
$1,412
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
16
inspections on record
113
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: 113 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 Wash Plant #1 has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
11 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-04.
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 121 3 0 24793.4
2025 Q3 61 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 61 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 151 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 201 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 216 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
Show 47 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 129 1 0 7751.9
2023 Q3 222 2 0 9009.0
2023 Q2 140 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 154 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 136 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 457 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 390 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 33 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 379 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 243 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 193 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 389 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 48 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 215 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 311 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 48 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 171 1 0 5848.0
2017 Q3 378 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 244 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 89 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 454 1 0 2202.6
2016 Q2 167 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 174 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 420 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 441 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 39 2 0 51282.1
2014 Q3 226 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 108 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 172 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 79 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 613 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 135 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 550 1 0 1818.2
2012 Q2 178 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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