Fort Collins Plant has $31K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2002–2003
Latest incident
Jun 2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
15
citations
2
significant & substantial
$30,829
proposed penalties
$24,774
paid to date
80% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $6,055 gap.
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: 329 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Fort Collins Plant has $31K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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.
$31K
proposed penalties
$25K
current assessed
$25K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
14 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $30K in penalties contested before the Commission, $24K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-09-04.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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.
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: 2003-04-02, 23 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
6
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (6)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2003-04-02
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.18
0.56
0.32
Cleanup Man
2003-04-02
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.25
0.65
0.38
Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-03-07
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.33
1.32
0.25
Laborer, Bullgang
2002-03-07
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.16
0.9
0.18
Washer Operator
2002-03-06
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.29
Front-end Loader Operator
2002-03-06
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.
Fort Collins Plant recorded 9.20 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2002.
Injury rate, 2002
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
9.20
total case rate
9.20
days-away rate
9.202
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.17 and the all-US-mining average was 5.05 cases per 100 workers.
In Colorado, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.95 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2004
2
2003
9
2002
7
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Fort Collins Plant sits in Larimer County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 0.6% 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.
Larimer County, Colorado · Population 363,561
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$91,364
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
2004 Q1
836
0
0
0.0
2003 Q4
3,441
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
4,626
2
1
432.3
2003 Q2
4,894
2
0
408.7
2003 Q1
4,245
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
6,493
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
6,648
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
4,855
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2002 Q1
3,739
11
1
2942.0
Fatalities at this mine
1 recorded
January 21, 2002CO · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorFatality · MACHINERY
THE EMPLOYEE ENTERED A LOG WASHER AND DID NOT FOLLOW SAFETY PROCEDURES BY USING A LOCK OUT TAG OUT PROCEDURE. THE MACHINE WAS INADVERTENTLY ENERGIZED WHICH IN TURN RESULTED IN HIS DEATH.
Reportable incidents
1 on file (excluding fatalities above)
2003 · 1 incident
June 20, 2003CO · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanMACHINERY
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING UP BUILD UP FROM UNDER JAW FEEDER. AS EMPLOYEE EXITED AREA ON HANDS & KNEES, A ROCK FELL FROM JAW FEEDER ABOVE CUTTING LEFT RING FINGER. (PINCHED BETWEEN ROCK & GROUND.)
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