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Fountain Springs: 5 MSHA citations
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Fountain Springs is an active crushed, broken stone surface mine in Tulare County, California, operated by Porterville Rock and Recycle Inc with 2 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 0405180). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 5 citations and orders there with $9,649 in proposed penalties, and 0 accident reports were filed there, with no injury or illness cases.
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- MSHA mine ID
- 0405180
- Status
- Active since October 15, 2024
- Main commodity
- Crushed, broken stone
- Mine type
- Surface
- County
- Tulare County, California
- Nearest town
- Fountain Springs
- Operator
- Porterville Rock and Recycle Inc
- Employees
- 2
- MSHA field office
- San Bernardino CA Field Office
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 5
- Significant and substantial
- 4 (80.0%)
- Closure orders
- 2
- High negligence or reckless
- 3
- Proposed penalties
- $9,649
- Amount paid so far
- $9,649
- Inspections
- 7
- Inspector hours on site
- 32
- Citations per inspection
- 0.71 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 0
- Injury and illness cases
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Latest MSHA record
- May 19, 2026
- Citations issued to contractors here
- 2 ($286 proposed)
Citations and injury cases by year
Calendar years since 2022; 2026 runs to the date of the MSHA files.
| Year | Citations and orders | Significant and substantial | Proposed penalties | Injury and illness cases |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | $151 | 0 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4 | $9,498 | 0 |
Standards cited most at Fountain Springs
Sections of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations named on the citations, with the part each belongs to.
| Standard | What the part covers | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 30 CFR 56.14107 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 3 |
| 30 CFR 56.18002 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.12008 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
Other open mines in Tulare County, California
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Creek Asphalt | Deer Creek Rock Co | Tulare County, CA | Construction sand and gravel | 21 | 87 |
| Tule River/success Dam | Porterville Rock and Recycle Inc | Tulare County, CA | Construction sand and gravel | 39 | 30 |
| Orosi Quarry | Granite Construction Company | Tulare County, CA | Construction sand and gravel | 21 | 28 |
| Kaweah South | Santa Fe Aggregates | Tulare County, CA | Sand, common | 10 | 28 |
| Decomposed Granite Pit (LG) | Porterville Rock and Recycle Inc | Tulare County, CA | Crushed, broken granite | 2 | 2 |
| Foothill Granite LLC | Vollmer Excavation, Inc. | Tulare County, CA | Crushed, broken granite | 2 | 1 |
US government work, public domain. Counts come from the MSHA files published on November 6, 2026. An open mine is one MSHA lists as Active, Intermittent, New Mine, Temporarily Idled or NonProducing; 13,673 were open that day. Citations, penalties, inspections and accident reports run from January 1, 2022. A citation is an inspector's allegation and an operator can contest it; the penalty is the amount MSHA first proposed, before any contest or settlement. An operator is the legal entity MSHA assesses, and a parent company is its controller. Mines run by sole proprietors or by individuals are counted in every total and are not named. This page uses MSHA data and is not endorsed or certified by MSHA. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.