ROGUE PORTABLE #4 has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
15
Years on record
1990–2026
Latest incident
Jul 2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
75
citations
8
significant & substantial
$10,737
proposed penalties
$10,293
paid to date
96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $444 gap.
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: 748 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘA Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2019-04-09.
On record since 2019.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
ROGUE PORTABLE #4 has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
74 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
Of $1K in penalties contested before the Commission, $486 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-07-31.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘContesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
5citations taken to the federal commission · 7% of citations on record
Settled
4 · 80%
Vacated or withdrawn
1 · 20%
0%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘCounts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
54%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1K proposed, $486 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2020-04-30.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
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: 2025-08-26
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
17
samples
6
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg7
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz4
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (17)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-08-26
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Bulldozer Operator
2025-08-26
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2022-03-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2019-09-18
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2019-09-18
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2016-03-08
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.19
Front-end Loader Operator
2016-03-08
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.28
Crusher Oper/Worker
2010-08-26
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.37
1.27
0.29
Backhoe Operator
2010-08-26
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Bulldozer Operator
2010-08-26
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.35
0.77
0.45
Truck Driver
2010-08-26
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.24
0.61
0.39
Front-end Loader Operator
2003-11-05
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.87
Bulldozer Operator
2003-11-05
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.36
Crusher Oper/Worker
2001-05-23
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.16
10
0.02
Crusher Oper/Worker
2001-05-23
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.45
10
0.05
Front-end Loader Operator
2001-05-23
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.24
2
0.12
Crusher Oper/Worker
2001-05-23
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader 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.
ROGUE PORTABLE #4 recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2007.
Injury rate, 2007
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.30 and the all-US-mining average was 3.77 cases per 100 workers.
In Oregon, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.66 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2007 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2006 *
6.69
0.00
0.000
2005 *
13.63
6.81
0.000
2004 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2000 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
5
2025
4
2024
5
2023
7
2022
6
2021
6
2020
7
2019
7
2018
6
2017
3
2016
5
2015
4
2014
2
2013
2
2012
2
2011
1
2010
3
2009
1
2008
6
2007
16
2006
14
2005
13
2004
10
2003
9
2002
10
2001
10
2000
11
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
ROGUE PORTABLE #4 sits in Jackson County, Oregon, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Jackson County, Oregon · Population 222,563
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$71,443
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
Team member climbed onto a water truck to check the water level. As they were climbing back down, their left ring became caught on a step, causing a snag incident.
April 1, 2026OR · Metal/Non-Metaloutside foreman, leadmanOTHER
MINER WAS INSTALLING A BRACKET ON THE WALL AND BRUSHED THEIR ARM AGAINST ONE OF THE PROTRUDING BOLTS THAT HAD NOT YET BEEN FULLY SECURED RESULTING IN A LACERATION TO THEIR ARM THAT REQUIRED SUTURES.
2022 · 1 incident
October 31, 2022OR · Metal/Non-Metalelectrician, linemanPOWERED HAULAGE
Electrical Contractor (ID K893) on our mine site was operating a F-350 pickup ascending a haul road when the vehicle suffered a brake failure and began rolling backwards. Individual removed their seat belt and jumped from the moving vehicle resulting in left lower extremity being "run over" by the L front tire of the pickup as it rolled backwards.
2006 · 1 incident
May 16, 2006OR · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
THE WORKER WAS PULLING A SCREEN OUT OF A LOADER BUCKET AND STRAINED HIS LOWER BACK. DID NOT KNOW OF INJURY UNTIL 3-14-01.
1999 · 2 incidents
June 29, 1999OR · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
February 25, 1999OR · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
WAS PLACING TRASH IN PICKUP TO BROUGHT DOWN TO DUMPSTER WHEN FOOT SLIP OFF BUMPER OF PICKUP. SHOES WERE SLICK FROM LIGHT RAIN & BUMPER WAS WET.
1994 · 1 incident
December 20, 1994OR · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Rogue Aggregates Inc · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances
EE WAS LOADING A PIECE OF PLATE INTO THE BACK END OF THE SERVICE TRUCK WHEN THE PLATE STRUCK AN AEROSOL CAN OF PENETRATING FLUID, SPRAYING THE FLUID ONTO HIS FACE AND EYES. A NON-SERIOUS INJUR Y.
1990 · 1 incident
March 23, 1990OR · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Rogue Aggregates Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
WORKER WAS IN PROCESS OF LIFTING LID OFF OF IMPACT CRUSHER WHEN FINGER GOT PINCHER BETWEEN LIFTING EYE ON LID & SHACKLE PIN PINCHING RIGHT RING FINGER CRUSHING TIP.
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