Van Acker Portable Plant #1 has $121 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1991
Latest incident
Jul 1991
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
2
citations
0
significant & substantial
$121
proposed penalties
$110
paid to date
91% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $11 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: 24 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Van Acker Portable Plant #1 has $121 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$121
proposed penalties
$110
current assessed
$110
paid to date
$0
outstanding
2 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $66 in penalties contested before the Commission, $55 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2001-09-25.
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.
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2003
2
2002
1
2001
2
2000
2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Van Acker Portable Plant #1 sits in Kane County, Illinois, 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.
Kane County, Illinois · Population 516,097
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$100,678
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
2003 Q2
430
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
140
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
320
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
480
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
68
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
30
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
740
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
1,003
2
0
1994.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2001 Q2
96
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
162
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
639
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
1,072
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
606
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
1991 · 1 incident
July 18, 1991IL · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON