Albert Frei & Sons Pit #8 has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
1992–2000
Latest incident
Aug 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
99
citations
23
significant & substantial
$22,494
proposed penalties
$21,369
paid to date
95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,125 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: 374 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Albert Frei & Sons Pit #8 has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$22K
proposed penalties
$21K
current assessed
$21K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
98 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $8K in penalties contested before the Commission, $6K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-05-10.
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.
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.
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: 2005-02-09, 21 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg3
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2005-02-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.21
0.66
0.32
Laborer, Bullgang
2005-02-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-02-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2005-02-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
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.
Albert Frei & Sons Pit #8 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
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
2005 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2004 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2003 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2002 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2001 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2000 *
11.60
11.60
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2011
0
2010
7
2009
5
2008
8
2007
10
2006
11
2005
12
2004
12
2003
15
2002
19
2001
14
2000
13
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Albert Frei & Sons Pit #8 sits in Adams County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 0.9% 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.
Adams County, Colorado · Population 524,408
0.9%
Mining share of county employment
$91,387
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
2011 Q2
0
0
0
2011 Q1
0
0
0
2010 Q4
0
0
0
2010 Q3
3,380
0
0
0.0
2010 Q2
4,728
1
0
211.5
2010 Q1
1,605
0
0
0.0
2009 Q4
0
0
0
2009 Q3
3,166
3
1
947.6
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2009 Q2
3,784
0
0
0.0
2009 Q1
3,178
0
0
0.0
2008 Q4
2,784
6
1
2155.2
2008 Q3
4,336
0
0
0.0
2008 Q2
5,415
0
0
0.0
2008 Q1
5,794
3
0
517.8
2007 Q4
5,025
0
0
0.0
2007 Q3
6,059
0
0
0.0
2007 Q2
5,416
0
0
0.0
2007 Q1
7,599
19
3
2500.3
2006 Q4
5,596
0
0
0.0
2006 Q3
7,849
0
0
0.0
2006 Q2
7,448
2
1
268.5
2006 Q1
5,538
0
0
0.0
2005 Q4
6,197
0
0
0.0
2005 Q3
7,952
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
8,576
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
8,387
2
0
238.5
2004 Q4
6,015
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
7,640
1
0
130.9
2004 Q2
7,730
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
8,510
24
0
2820.2
2003 Q4
8,567
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
11,698
0
0
0.0
2003 Q2
7,105
1
0
140.7
2003 Q1
7,205
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
9,043
2
0
221.2
2002 Q3
13,288
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
15,499
6
2
387.1
2002 Q1
14,556
1
0
68.7
2001 Q4
12,403
6
4
483.8
2001 Q3
11,274
2
1
177.4
2001 Q2
7,969
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
7,971
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
8,380
1
1
119.3
2000 Q3
8,972
13
7
1449.0
2000 Q2
9,325
1
1
107.2
2000 Q1
7,792
1
0
128.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
5 on file
2000 · 2 incidents
August 11, 2000CO · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EMPLOYEEWAS HELPING TO RETRIEVE BROKEN LAGGING FOR HAND PULLEY PLANT OPERATOR. HIS HAND WENT THROUGH BETWEEN BELTS WHEN HE REMOVED HIS GLOVE IT HAD STRIPPED HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER. THEY AMPUTATED LEFT LITTLE FINGER AT HOSPITAL.
1995 · 1 incident
May 15, 1995CO · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EE WAS CHANGING OIL ON ENGINE OF CAT 980F. HE WAS STANDING ON BATTERY BOX ON BACK OF MACHINE. HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF BATTERY BOX AND HE FELL ABOUT 3' TO GROUND, LANDING ONHIS LEFT ARM, BREAKING HIS LEFT WRIST.
1993 · 1 incident
June 21, 1993CO · Metal/Non-Metalwelder (shop)FIRE
EE WAS CHANGING HOSE ON ACTALENE TANK THAT WAS MOUNTED BEHIND A PORTABLE WELDER. HE TURNED GAS OFF BUT THE VALVE DID NOT CLOSE ALL THE WAY OFF. THE WELDER EXHAUST SET FIRE TO ACTALENE REQULATO R WHERE HIS HAND WAS RESULTING IN FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD DEGREE BURNS ON HIS LEFT WRIST AND HAND.
1992 · 1 incident
May 1, 1992CO · Metal/Non-Metalwelder (shop)MACHINERY
EMPLOYEE HAD JUST CUT 3 FEET OFF A 20 FOOT PIECE OF 16" I BEAM. THEY LIFTED THE I BEAM WITH A LOADER ABOUT THREE FEET OFF THE GROUND. THE THREE FOOT END HAD NOT BEEN CUT COMPLETLY OFF. EE WAS STANDING ON THE SIDE OF THE LONG END OF THE I-BEAM. WHEN THE THREE FOOT END FELL OFF THE I-BEAM WAS OFF BALANCE AND ONE END CAME DOWN ON HIS TOE.