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8-MILE GRAVEL PIT-WEST: 3 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Stephen Schnurr
Fremont County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0504449

MSHA record for 8-MILE GRAVEL PIT-WEST (mine ID 0504449). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1994–1998
Latest incident
Dec 1998
Ownership history
  1. Rocky Mountain Materials & Asphalt Inc 1990 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2000 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

8-MILE GRAVEL PIT-WEST sits in Fremont County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 0.6% 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.
Fremont County, Colorado · Population 49,394
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$61,027
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
2000 Q1 769 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

1998 · 1 incident

December 29, 1998 CO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Rocky Mountain Materials & Asphalt Inc · Fall from machine

EE WAS IN BED OF SERVICE TRUCK AND WENT TO CLIMB OUT OF BED AND TRIPPED ON A SCREEN IN BED OF TRUCK AND FELL OUT OF BACK OF TRUCK AND LANDED ON HIS RIGHT ARM.

1996 · 1 incident

June 4, 1996 CO · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Rocky Mountain Materials & Asphalt Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS TRYING TO LOAD A FULL 55 GAL. DRUM INTO A LOADER BUCKET TO BE MOVED ACROSS PIT WHEN THE DRUM SHIFTED & SMASHED THE TIP OF HIS MIDDLE RIGHT HAND FINGER AGAINST LOADER BUCKET.

1994 · 1 incident

June 30, 1994 CO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Rocky Mountain Materials & Asphalt Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING ON A 7FT LADDER APPROX 2FT ABOVE GROUND TO ADJUST A BELT WHEN LADDER SHIFTED DUE TO LOOSE MATERIAL UNDER LEG OF LDDER WHEN LADDER SHIFTED THE EMPLOYEE STEPPED OFF LADDER ONTO UNEVEN GROUND WHICH STRAINED HIS BACK