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Bueno Mine: 12 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Gold Hill Minerals Inc · Underground
Jamestown, Boulder County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0502402

Bueno Mine has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $18K outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1987
Latest incident
Nov 1987
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
12
citations
2
significant & substantial
$19,435
proposed penalties
$1,922
paid to date
10% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $17,513 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
5
inspections on record
102
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: 102 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Bueno Mine has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $18K 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.
$19K
proposed penalties
$19K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$18K
outstanding
10 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $2K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-07-09.
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.
20.0%
significant & substantial
70.0%
high negligence or reckless
20.0%
reasonably likely or greater
70.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 30.0% moderate, 70.0% 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 · 8% of citations on record
  • Stood as issued 1 · 100%
100%
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 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$2K proposed, $2K 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 2007-06-11.
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 2007-572M Default Lesnick 2008 $2K → $2K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Bueno Coeur D'Alene Inc 1950 to 1979
  2. Jamestown Mining Company 1979 to 1984
  3. Moritz Mining Company Inc 1984 to 1985
  4. Wassuck Mining Corp 1985 to 1986
  5. Van Dyke Minerals Ltd 1986 to 2006
  6. Merendon Mining (Colorado) Inc 2006 to 2012
  7. Gold Hill Minerals Inc 2012 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2007 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Bueno Mine sits in Boulder County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Boulder County, Colorado · Population 328,317
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$102,772
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
2007 Q3 0 7 1
2007 Q2 1,536 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 855 1 0 1169.6
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1987 · 2 incidents

November 11, 1987 CO · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Van Dyke Minerals Ltd · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS DR3VING A FULL LOAD OF ORE FROM THE 450 LEVEL TO THE MILL HE LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK WHICH WAS TRAVELING DOWN A STEEP HILL AND JUMPED FROM THE CAB