Commerce City Pit Metal/Non-Metal
Colowyo Improvement Company
· Surface
Controlled by
Northwestern Engineering Company
Adams County,
CO
·
Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0503293
Commerce City Pit has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 0
- Years on record
- —
- Latest incident
- —
Ownership history
- Colowyo Improvement Company 1979 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Commerce City Pit sits in Adams County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 0.9% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.Adams County, Colorado · Population 524,408
0.9%
Mining share of county employment
$91,387
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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.