Amrize Distel Plant has $59K in proposed MSHA penalties and $555 outstanding across 6 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
23
Years on record
1992–2023
Latest incident
Feb 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
189
citations
39
significant & substantial
$59,309
proposed penalties
$58,295
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,014 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.
189 citations across 1,201 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘA Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
3
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2018-02-26.
On record since 2016.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
Amrize Distel Plant has $59K in proposed MSHA penalties and $555 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.
$59K
proposed penalties
$59K
current assessed
$58K
paid to date
$555
outstanding
184 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
Of $1K in penalties contested before the Commission, $700 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-16.
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.
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.
8citations taken to the federal commission · 4% of citations on record
Settled
8 · 100%
50%
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 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
41%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1K proposed, $640 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 2011-04-15.
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: 2023-09-28
20%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
25
samples
10
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz122 over
Respirable dust, <.1mg13
Show the individual readings (25)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2023-09-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1.84
1.54
1.19
Laborer, Bullgang
2001-06-27
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1
0.89
1.12
Cleanup Man
2023-09-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
Front-end Loader Operator
2023-09-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2023-09-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.16
0.75
0.21
Front-end Loader Operator
2020-12-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Mechanic
2020-12-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2020-12-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.18
Mechanic
2020-12-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2017-07-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2017-07-20
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.36
1.28
0.28
Front-end Loader Operator
2017-07-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Mechanic
2017-07-20
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.25
0.36
0.69
Laborer, Bullgang
2017-07-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2011-11-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2011-02-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2009-06-18
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.28
0.87
0.32
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2009-06-18
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.36
0.69
0.52
Mechanic
2009-06-18
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.12
0.91
0.13
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-11-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-11-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2005-11-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2005-11-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2001-06-27
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.18
1.01
0.18
Front-end Loader Operator
2001-06-27
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.21
0.39
0.54
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.
Amrize Distel Plant recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ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 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Colorado, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.64 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
2025 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2024 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
6.13
0.00
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2018 *
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
6
2025
10
2024
12
2023
14
2022
13
2021
14
2020
11
2019
10
2018
9
2017
9
2016
9
2015
8
2014
5
2013
3
2012
4
2011
5
2010
7
2009
9
2008
10
2007
10
2006
10
2005
11
2004
9
2003
9
2002
11
2001
12
2000
14
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Amrize Distel Plant sits in Weld County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 2.4% 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.
Weld County, Colorado · Population 340,711
2.4%
Mining share of county employment
$93,287
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
AVAILABLE INFORMATION FROM THE SCRAPER OPERATOR AND EYE WITNESS SHOWS THAT THE EMPLOYEE MOVED BETWEEN A BACKING 633 CAT SCRAPER AND HIS PICKUP OUT OF THE OPERATORS FIELD OF VISION. HE WAS RUN OVER BY THE LEFT REAR SCRAPER TIRE RESULTING IN DEATH.
Reportable incidents
22 on file (excluding fatalities above)
2023 · 1 incident
February 17, 2023CO · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Employee was attempting to free a screen tightening rail with a four foot bar and the rail came loose. The bar then came back and struck the employee on the left side of the face causing safety glasses to cut employee just above the eyebrow.
2015 · 1 incident
July 31, 2015CO · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Employee was in the process of building a guard, and was welding at the time, when another employee with a lit cutting torch pulled on the torch to get more slack in the hose. In the process he ran the lit torch across the arm of the employee that was welding. This caused a second degree burn on the employee's upper left forearm about two inches in diameter.
2004 · 1 incident
April 6, 2004CO · Metal/Non-Metalwelder (shop)MACHINERY
EE RECEIVED WELDER ARC BURN TO THE EYES WHILE HELPING AN EE WELD CHUTES. EE WAS USING P.P.E. BUT MAY HAVE SUSTAINED THE BURN WHILE WORKING IN THE AREA.
EE WAS STANDING ON A CONVEYOR APPROXIMATELY 5' OFF OF GROUND OBSERVING THE TRANSFER POINT OF THE CONVEYOR HE WAS STANDING ON AND THE DISCHARGE END OF THE CONVEYOR DUMPING ONTO IT. HE LOST HIS FOOTING & GRABBED DRIVE PULLEY OF THE OVERHEAD CONVEYOR CUTTING HIS RIGHT RING FINGER & TWISTING HIS WRIST. THE CUT TOOK 4 STITCHES.
2002 · 1 incident
August 9, 2002CO · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techMACHINERY
EE WAS REMOVING A CUTTING EDGE FROM A SKID-STEER WITH AN IMPACT GUN. WHEN NUT LOOSENED HE WAS HOLDING BOLT IN WITH HIS FINGER. THE BOLT DROPPED & SPUN CUTTING HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER (9 SUTURES)
2001 · 1 incident
March 28, 2001CO · Metal/Non-Metalmine manager, mine foreman, mine ownerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
OPERATOR OF SCRAPPER THAT RAN OVER A CO-WORKER AND KILLED HIM ON 2-8-00. OPERATOR HAD BEEN SUFFERING FROM STRESS RELATED PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS EVENT. ON 3-14 HE REPORTED A WORK RELATED ILNESS FOR STRESS.
1999 · 1 incident
November 9, 1999CO · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
CHIPPED TOOTH WHILE TIGHTENING BOLT AT HEAD LEVEL WHEN SOCKET SLIPPED OFF OF NUT.
1994 · 1 incident
February 3, 1994CO · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON