Mining Incidents

1995 Cedarapids Crusher: 206 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Duckels Construction Inc · Surface
Controlled by Fred A Duckels
Steamboat Springs, Routt County, CO  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0502398

1995 Cedarapids Crusher has $120K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 6 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 2000
206
citations
53
significant & substantial
$120,165
proposed penalties
$94,016
paid to date
78% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $26,149 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
63
inspections on record
884
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: 884 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

1995 Cedarapids Crusher has $120K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 6 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.
$120K
proposed penalties
$94K
current assessed
$94K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
204 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
Of $79K in penalties contested before the Commission, $53K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-05.
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.
26.0%
significant & substantial
12.3%
high negligence or reckless
26.0%
reasonably likely or greater
55.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 10.3% low, 77.5% moderate, 12.3% 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.
71 citations taken to the federal commission · 34% of citations on record
  • Settled 71 · 100%
97%
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 32 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
33%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$79K proposed, $53K 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 2025-08-19.
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
WEST 2008-1383M Settlement Manning 2010 $40K → $24K
WEST 2025-0363 Settlement Paez 2026 $16K → $15K
WEST 2023-0402 Settlement Manning 2024 $8K → $4K
WEST 2008-1384M Settlement Manning 2010 $8K → $5K
WEST 2023-0438 Settlement Manning 2024 $7K → $5K
WEST 2008-1385M Settlement Lesnick 2009 $338 → $338
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: 2025-06-17
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
12
samples
7
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz7
  • Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz3
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (12)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-06-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2025-06-17 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2025-06-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.66 0.23 Laborer, Bullgang
2015-08-06 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0.18 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-08-06 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2015-08-06 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0.17 Laborer, Bullgang
2009-07-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 1.67 0.09 Mechanic
2009-07-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.31 0.9 0.34 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-08-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.34 1.43 0.24 Backhoe Operator
2005-08-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 0.61 0.30 Utility Man
2005-08-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 1.41 0.10 Truck Driver
2005-08-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.83 0.24 Crusher Oper/Worker
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.

1995 Cedarapids Crusher recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2007.

Injury rate, 2007
This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.30 and the all-US-mining average was 3.77 cases per 100 workers.
In Colorado, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.23 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2007 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2006 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2004 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Bettger Sand & Gravel Company 1950 to 1989
  2. Duckels Construction Inc 1989 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 9
2025 7
2024 9
2023 9
2022 12
2021 16
2020 9
2019 8
2018 3
2017 5
2016 7
2015 5
2014 4
2013 4
2012 2
2011 4
2010 2
2009 5
2008 13
2007 14
2006 14
2005 12
2004 11
2003 7
2002 8
2001 10
2000 10
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

1995 Cedarapids Crusher sits in Routt County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 1.1% 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.
Routt County, Colorado · Population 24,990
1.1%
Mining share of county employment
$104,803
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 4,507 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 2,091 5 2 2391.2
2025 Q4 3,112 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,889 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 4,022 11 5 2735.0
2025 Q1 2,529 2 0 790.8
2024 Q4 2,200 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,400 3 0 882.4
Show 94 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 3,320 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,677 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 2,600 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 4,860 3 2 617.3
2023 Q2 3,080 30 16 9740.3
2023 Q1 710 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,680 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 5,470 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,585 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 281 1 0 3558.7
2021 Q4 2,650 11 2 4150.9
2021 Q3 4,252 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,110 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,400 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,200 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,430 1 0 291.5
2020 Q2 2,765 1 0 361.7
2020 Q1 1,009 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 3,193 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,239 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,207 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,358 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,368 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 413 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,885 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,413 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,484 3 0 1207.7
2017 Q1 692 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,784 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,236 4 2 1788.9
2016 Q2 1,812 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 336 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 693 1 0 1443.0
2015 Q3 1,978 2 1 1011.1
2015 Q2 1,863 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,453 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,405 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,594 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,700 4 0 2352.9
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 248 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 3,353 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,364 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,141 2 0 1752.8
2012 Q3 1,816 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,940 2 0 1030.9
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 730 1 0 1369.9
2011 Q3 3,216 8 1 2487.6
2011 Q2 807 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 552 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,676 3 1 1790.0
2010 Q2 1,215 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 83 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 4,651 4 0 860.0
2009 Q2 1,916 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 468 5 1 10683.8
2008 Q3 8,178 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 5,889 30 9 5094.2
2008 Q1 1,979 1 0 505.3
2007 Q4 6,617 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 6,687 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 7,134 13 2 1822.3
2007 Q1 2,726 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 5,223 4 1 765.8
2006 Q3 9,514 4 0 420.4
2006 Q2 7,081 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 3,293 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,347 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 6,241 5 2 801.2
2005 Q2 5,983 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,937 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 7,290 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 9,393 19 4 2022.8
2004 Q2 4,753 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,546 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 5,209 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 4,020 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,179 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 3,264 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 5,012 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 3,861 5 2 1295.0
2002 Q1 706 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 3,793 9 0 2372.8
2001 Q3 5,873 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 5,479 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 2,059 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 3,581 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 4,533 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 4,773 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 2,385 7 0 2935.0

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.