Mining Incidents

Box Creek Placer Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Extreme Excavation · Surface
Controlled by MTFE Holdings; HFI LLC
Fairplay, Park County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0504998

Box Creek Placer Mine has $60K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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 2012
63
citations
23
significant & substantial
$60,275
proposed penalties
$52,319
paid to date
87% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $7,956 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
15
inspections on record
233
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: 233 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Box Creek Placer Mine has $60K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$60K
proposed penalties
$52K
current assessed
$52K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
60 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2017-07-12.
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
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 4,167 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 5,063 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,834 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 0 0 0
Show 23 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 2,241 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 16,871 13 6 770.6
2017 Q2 15,462 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 7,470 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 13,681 12 3 877.1
2016 Q2 4,912 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 6,319 3 1 474.8
2015 Q3 9,080 20 9 2202.6
2015 Q2 4,153 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 2,598 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 5,720 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 6,224 7 2 1124.7
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 4,398 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 6,345 1 0 157.6
2013 Q2 5,790 6 2 1036.3
2013 Q1 1,446 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,253 1 0 443.9
2012 Q3 4,037 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.

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