Mining Incidents

Trusty Trucking Portable Plant 1: 12 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Trusty Trucking, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Mike Germano
Iron River, Bayfield County, WI  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4703587

Trusty Trucking Portable Plant 1 has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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 2016
12
citations
3
significant & substantial
$1,475
proposed penalties
$1,475
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2010
20
inspections on record
126
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: 126 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Trusty Trucking Portable Plant 1 has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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
12 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $572 in penalties contested before the Commission, $472 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-03.
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.
25.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
25.0%
reasonably likely or greater
25.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 50.0% low, 50.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
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.
5 citations taken to the federal commission · 42% of citations on record
  • Settled 4 · 80%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 20%
100%
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%
17%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$572 proposed, $472 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 2018-11-19.
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.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
LAKE 2019-0093 Settlement Bulluck 2019 $472 → $472
LAKE 2015-0155 Withdrawal Bulluck 2015 $100 → $0
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2021-07-13, 5 years ago
2
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2021-07-13 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-07-13 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.
Ownership history
  1. Trusty Trucking, Inc. 2010 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 3
2024 3
2023 3
2022 3
2021 3
2020 3
2019 2
2018 3
2017 3
2016 3
2015 3
2014 3
2013 2
2012 3
2011 2
2010 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Trusty Trucking Portable Plant 1 sits in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, 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.
Bayfield County, Wisconsin · Population 16,410
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$69,609
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 468 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 68 1 0 14705.9
2025 Q3 466 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 424 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 48 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 312 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 664 0 0 0.0
Show 57 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 664 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 176 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 608 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,256 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 840 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 264 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 728 1 1 1373.6
2022 Q2 440 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 76 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 440 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 856 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 728 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 168 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 456 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 740 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 552 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 83 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 80 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 600 1 1 1666.7
2019 Q2 304 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 44 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 256 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 932 4 1 4291.8
2018 Q2 408 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 240 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 408 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 362 3 0 8287.3
2017 Q2 696 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 25 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 488 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 712 2 0 2809.0
2016 Q2 5 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 5 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 5 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 138 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 62 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 5 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 62 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 12 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 7 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 92 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 5 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 5 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 4 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 276 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 336 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 364 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 48 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 15 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 200 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 200 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 680 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 760 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.