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Blue Pit: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by M P M Inc
Garfield County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0503885

MSHA record for Blue Pit (mine ID 0503885). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1983
Latest incident
Jul 1983
Ownership history
  1. Zemlock & Son Inc 1983 to 1984
  2. Mobile Premix Company 1984 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Blue Pit sits in Garfield County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 1.5% 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.
Garfield County, Colorado · Population 62,034
1.5%
Mining share of county employment
$86,172
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1983 · 1 incident

July 13, 1983 CO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mobile Premix Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

I WAS WORKING UNDER THE CRUSHER PLACING RAILROAD TIES WHEN LIFTING ONE OF THE TIES A SHARP PAIN SHOT THRU MY LOWER BACK