Mining Incidents

GEOCAST: 47 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Thomas P Clark
Adams County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0504662

GEOCAST has $4K 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
2000
Latest incident
Feb 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
47
citations
20
significant & substantial
$4,295
proposed penalties
$4,295
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
9
inspections on record
137
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: 137 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

GEOCAST has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
47 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2002-01-24.
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.
42.6%
significant & substantial
6.4%
high negligence or reckless
42.6%
reasonably likely or greater
31.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 4.3% low, 89.4% moderate, 6.4% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.

GEOCAST recorded 9.74 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2000.

Injury rate, 2000
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.
9.74
total case rate
9.74
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.77 and the all-US-mining average was 5.64 cases per 100 workers.
In Colorado, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 5.67 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.
Ownership history
  1. Energy Technologies Group Inc 1999 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2004 0
2003 0
2002 3
2001 9
2000 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

GEOCAST sits in Adams County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 0.9% 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.
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.
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 Q4 0 0 0
2004 Q3 0 0 0
2004 Q2 0 0 0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2003 Q3 0 0 0
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
Show 12 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2002 Q4 0 0 0
2002 Q3 0 0 0
2002 Q2 0 0 0
2002 Q1 3,977 15 6 3771.7
2001 Q4 4,765 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 4,597 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 4,462 4 4 896.5
2001 Q1 3,388 14 5 4132.2
2000 Q4 4,922 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 5,729 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 5,061 6 4 1185.5
2000 Q1 4,830 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2000 · 1 incident

February 18, 2000 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Energy Technologies Group Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE CREW WAS MAKING MODIFICATIONS TO THE SCREEN PLANT'S FEED HOPPER TO ACCOMMODATE A GRIZZLY. THESE MODIFICATIONS INCLUDED IMPROVEMENTS TO THE RAMP TO THE FEED HOPPER. THE CREW WAS INSTALLING CONCRETE BARRICADE BLOCKS TO SUPPORT THE RAMP FOUNDATION USING AN EXCAVATOR TO PLACE THE BARRICADES. THE BLOCKS WERE BEING PLACED SUSPENDED BY A CHAIN. ONE EDGE OF THE BLOCK WAS PLACED AND THE