Mining Incidents

Portable Wash Plant: 36 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by John P Moyna
Elkader, Clayton County, IA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1302353

Portable Wash Plant has $5K 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
1
Years on record
2025
Latest incident
Aug 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
36
citations
8
significant & substantial
$4,661
proposed penalties
$4,661
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
29
inspections on record
257
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: 257 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 has $5K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
36 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-08-03.
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.
22.2%
significant & substantial
5.6%
high negligence or reckless
22.2%
reasonably likely or greater
47.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 11.1% low, 83.3% moderate, 5.6% 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: 2026-03-24
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
9
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (9)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-03-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2025-09-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2025-07-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-09-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bobcat Operator
2023-09-19 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 1.58 10 0.16 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-09-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bobcat Operator
2019-10-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2008-10-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2008-10-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 1.21 0.21 Washer 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. C J Moyna & Sons LLC. 2007 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 2
2024 3
2023 1
2022 1
2021 2
2020 4
2019 2
2018 1
2017 4
2016 3
2015 2
2014 2
2013 4
2012 2
2011 1
2010 3
2009 3
2008 2
2007 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Wash Plant sits in Clayton County, Iowa, where the Census mining category is 1.4% 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.
Clayton County, Iowa · Population 17,069
1.4%
Mining share of county employment
$62,326
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
2026 Q2 953 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 865 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 367 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,011 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 265 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 389 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
Show 67 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1,111 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 127 6 0 47244.1
2023 Q2 1,079 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 489 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 584 1 0 1712.3
2022 Q2 0 0 0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 217 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 4 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 247 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 428 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 740 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,555 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 117 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,831 2 1 1092.3
2019 Q3 449 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 865 4 1 4624.3
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 358 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 907 2 0 2205.1
2017 Q2 104 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 413 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 0 0 0
2016 Q2 898 1 1 1113.6
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 100 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 280 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 47 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 705 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 545 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 253 1 0 3952.6
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 375 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,234 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 899 4 1 4449.4
2013 Q1 343 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 396 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 926 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 663 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 492 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 115 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 40 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 321 8 4 24922.1
2010 Q3 1,367 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 2,518 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 1,273 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,510 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 348 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 400 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,649 5 0 3032.1
2008 Q3 1,577 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,408 2 0 1420.5
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 809 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2025 · 1 incident

August 19, 2025 IA · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
C J Moyna & Sons LLC. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was working on EE's plant. As the day wore on, EE noticed the pain in EE's knee was increasing. EE was working on uneven ground.