Mining Incidents

Crossfire 4 Corners Plant #1 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Ezra Eldon Lee
IGNACIO, Garfield County, CO  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0505009

Crossfire 4 Corners Plant #1 has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K 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
2016
Latest incident
May 2016
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2013
22
citations
8
significant & substantial
$6,117
proposed penalties
$3,224
paid to date
53% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,893 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2013
27
inspections on record
365
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: 365 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Crossfire 4 Corners Plant #1 has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
20 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-03.
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
2025 Q4 3,000 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 4,120 3 1 728.2
2025 Q2 3,865 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,984 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4,598 3 2 652.5
2024 Q3 3,520 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 4,035 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,697 0 0 0.0
Show 38 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 3,464 1 0 288.7
2023 Q3 2,969 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 4,176 2 0 478.9
2023 Q1 2,077 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,687 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 691 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,588 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 200 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,267 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,953 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,089 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,541 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,809 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,604 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,294 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,915 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,179 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 615 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 138 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,432 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,048 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,857 1 0 538.5
2016 Q3 1,738 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,696 6 3 3537.7
2016 Q1 2,164 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,901 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,585 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,873 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 297 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,559 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,753 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 2,008 2 1 996.0
2014 Q1 3,137 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,390 1 0 719.4
2013 Q3 1,413 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,950 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,703 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,197 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2016 · 1 incident

May 12, 2016 CO · Metal/Non-Metal FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Crossfire Aggregate Services, LLC · Accident type, without injuries

Material, dirt & rock slid off of the slope adjacent to the dozer and slid into its left side, breaking the dozer's left door glass. The extent of the damage was broken door glass in the dozer and there were no injuries.

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The full compliance file on Crossfire 4 Corners Plant #1

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.