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Elbert County Pit: 29 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Robert Christian
Elbert, Elbert County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0505081

Elbert County Pit has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2021
Latest incident
Feb 2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2018
29
citations
7
significant & substantial
$4,715
proposed penalties
$4,715
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Christian Construction Inc's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
13
inspections on record
160
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: 160 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Elbert County Pit has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
29 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-06-28.
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.
24.1%
significant & substantial
6.9%
high negligence or reckless
24.1%
reasonably likely or greater
51.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 20.7% low, 72.4% moderate, 6.9% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘ A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘ Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2019-10-23, 6 years ago
2
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2019-10-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-01-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Christian Construction Inc 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2025 2
2024 3
2023 4
2022 4
2021 3
2020 4
2019 3
2018 5
2017 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Elbert County Pit sits in Elbert 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.
Elbert County, Colorado · Population 27,152
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$129,477
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
2025 Q3 249 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 204 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 246 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,230 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,867 7 2 3749.3
2024 Q1 1,880 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,521 0 0 0.0
Show 25 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 1,900 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,638 2 0 1221.0
2023 Q1 1,045 2 0 1913.9
2022 Q4 962 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,270 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,649 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,043 10 3 9587.7
2021 Q4 1,408 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,168 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 925 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 680 1 1 1470.6
2020 Q4 1,462 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,410 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,360 1 1 735.3
2020 Q1 1,099 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 920 1 0 1087.0
2019 Q3 1,000 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,138 4 0 3514.9
2019 Q1 646 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,039 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,346 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,387 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,520 1 0 657.9
2017 Q4 1,357 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 40 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2021 · 1 incident

February 2, 2021 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Christian Construction Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

2 mine operators- moving concrete blocks, 1 loader operator, 1 operator standing between concrete blocks hooking chains to 2 pick points on concrete blocks. (Blind spot) loader operator lifted bucket at request of operator hooking chains to blocks. Block swung forward into operators legs (pinch point) between blocks.