Mining Incidents

Blue Streak Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Nuvemco LLC · Underground
Controlled by EMSU LLC
Naturita, Montrose County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0503534

Blue Streak Mine has $26K 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
1
Years on record
2009
Latest incident
Feb 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
18
citations
3
significant & substantial
$25,660
proposed penalties
$9,360
paid to date
36% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $16,300 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
5
inspections on record
268
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: 268 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Blue Streak Mine has $26K 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.
$26K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
18 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-04-16.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2009 Q2 1,058 9 2 8506.6
2009 Q1 5,367 9 1 1676.9
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2009 · 1 incident

February 23, 2009 CO · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Nuvemco LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

One miner was driving wedges into back to hang utilities from, axe the miner was using slipped from his hand and struck another miner in the face. It put a cut on the right upper part of his cheek, it required 3 stitches and a tetnus shot.

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