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Box Creek Placer Metal/Non-Metal

Titan Au, Inc. · Surface

Controlled by Lance J Baller

Leadville, Lake County, CO · Intermittent

MSHA Mine ID: 0505123

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2023
Latest incident: Jul 2023

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2020

citations

significant & substantial

$41,536

proposed penalties

$34,687

paid to date

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Quarterly safety rates

Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA

Quarter	Hours worked	Citations	S&S	Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4	8,257	0	0	0.0
2025 Q3	9,439	9	1	953.5
2025 Q2	7,786	1	0	128.4
2025 Q1	0	0	0
2024 Q4	7,053	0	0	0.0
2024 Q3	8,655	1	0	115.5
2024 Q2	7,975	0	0	0.0
2024 Q1	0	0	0

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2023 · 1 incident

July 14, 2023 CO · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY

Titan Au, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Injured miner was working with another miner to replace a nozzle on a pressure washer. Injured miner was replacing the nozzle while another miner was holding the wand. Other miner pulled the trigger accidently and the high-pressure water jet punctured injured miner's right hand requiring ten stitches.