Mining Incidents

Alpine Crusher and Wash: 65 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Alpine, Lincoln County, WY  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4801575

Alpine Crusher and Wash has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 2 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 2002
65
citations
21
significant & substantial
$11,915
proposed penalties
$8,033
paid to date
67% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,882 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
49
inspections on record
476
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: 476 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Alpine Crusher and Wash has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K 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.
$12K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
63 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $849 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-04-02.
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.
33.3%
significant & substantial
1.6%
high negligence or reckless
33.3%
reasonably likely or greater
52.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 15.9% low, 82.5% moderate, 1.6% 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.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 2% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 100%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$100 proposed, $100 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 2010-04-27.
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 2004-448M Dismissal Bulluck 2004 $2K → $749
WEST 2010-1112M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $100 → $100
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: 2025-04-03
11
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg11
Show the individual readings (11)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-04-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-04-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2023-09-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2023-09-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-09-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2021-05-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2021-05-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-09-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2009-09-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2006-04-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-04-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
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.
Ownership history
  1. Call Gravel 2000 to 2002
  2. Alota Sand & Gravel Inc. 2002 to 2023
  3. Suncore Construction and Materials 2023 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 4
2025 5
2024 4
2023 6
2022 5
2021 6
2020 4
2019 2
2018 3
2017 3
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 2
2012 2
2011 2
2010 2
2009 2
2008 2
2007 2
2006 2
2005 2
2004 2
2003 2
2002 1
2001 1
2000 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Alpine Crusher and Wash sits in Lincoln County, Wyoming, where the Census mining category is 4.8% 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.
Lincoln County, Wyoming · Population 20,158
4.8%
Mining share of county employment
$86,092
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 Q1 2,605 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 1,800 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,915 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,533 1 0 394.8
2024 Q4 483 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,812 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,272 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 931 0 0 0.0
Show 92 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,243 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,208 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,705 5 0 2932.6
2022 Q4 1,011 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,061 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,297 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 1,001 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,925 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,968 6 3 2021.6
2021 Q1 806 1 0 1240.7
2020 Q4 2,097 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,230 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,191 5 3 4198.2
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 1,204 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,863 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,545 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 690 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,913 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,732 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 86 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,174 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,846 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,920 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 144 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 323 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 513 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 366 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 340 1 1 2941.2
2015 Q3 764 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 704 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 383 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 629 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 472 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 274 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 535 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 416 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 324 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 599 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 528 1 0 1893.9
2012 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 211 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 650 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 167 5 1 29940.1
2011 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 351 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 633 2 0 3159.6
2010 Q2 267 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1 1 0 1000000.0
2009 Q4 398 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 745 1 1 1342.3
2009 Q2 563 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 525 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 760 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 557 1 0 1795.3
2008 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 502 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 753 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 693 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 256 1 0 3906.2
2006 Q4 554 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 765 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,244 3 0 2411.6
2006 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 693 2 0 2886.0
2005 Q3 1,274 8 3 6279.4
2005 Q2 1,103 5 2 4533.1
2005 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 766 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,285 6 2 4669.3
2004 Q2 1,045 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 903 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,132 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,485 6 2 4040.4
2003 Q1 58 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 685 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 179 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 230 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 556 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 75 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 340 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 150 0 0 0.0

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.