Washington Portable 1 has $704 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
2015
Latest incident
Aug 2015
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
5
citations
0
significant & substantial
$704
proposed penalties
$704
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 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: 55 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Washington Portable 1 has $704 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.
$704
proposed penalties
$704
current assessed
$704
paid to date
$0
outstanding
5 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-03-26.
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.
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: 2025-03-27
2
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-03-27
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2025-03-27
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.2
Backhoe 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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
0
2025
2
2024
3
2023
0
2022
1
2021
0
2020
0
2019
1
2018
1
2017
0
2016
1
2015
2
2014
3
2013
4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Washington Portable 1 sits in Whatcom County, Washington, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Whatcom County, Washington · Population 228,432
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$80,989
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
0
0
0
2026 Q1
0
0
0
2025 Q4
0
0
0
2025 Q3
484
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
581
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
168
4
0
23809.5
2024 Q4
565
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
2,629
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
810
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
0
0
0
2023 Q4
0
0
0
2023 Q3
50
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
0
0
0
2023 Q1
0
0
0
2022 Q4
0
0
0
2022 Q3
206
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
16
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
0
0
0
2021 Q4
0
0
0
2021 Q3
0
0
0
2021 Q2
0
0
0
2021 Q1
0
0
0
2020 Q4
0
0
0
2020 Q3
0
0
0
2020 Q2
0
0
0
2020 Q1
0
0
0
2019 Q4
24
0
0
0.0
2019 Q3
0
0
0
2019 Q2
244
0
0
0.0
2019 Q1
0
0
0
2018 Q4
0
0
0
2018 Q3
291
0
0
0.0
2017 Q1
0
0
0
2016 Q4
0
0
0
2016 Q3
1,013
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
30
0
0
0.0
2016 Q1
0
0
0
2015 Q4
0
0
0
2015 Q3
3,098
1
0
322.8
2015 Q2
158
0
0
0.0
2015 Q1
388
0
0
0.0
2014 Q4
2,902
0
0
0.0
2014 Q3
2,315
0
0
0.0
2014 Q2
1,497
0
0
0.0
2014 Q1
260
0
0
0.0
2013 Q4
894
0
0
0.0
2013 Q3
1,744
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2015 · 1 incident
August 4, 2015WA · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorPOWERED HAULAGE
Loader operator was taking material from bank with 980G front end loader, when material from above loader bucket collapsed onto loader bucket causing machine to bounce froward then back. Operator felt sore after this but did not seek out medical attention until 08-27-15, at which time he was placed on restricetd duty for 7 days.
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