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: 726 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Gold Links 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
25 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-08-18.
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.
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: 2022-06-14, 4 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
16
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg9
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz7
Show the individual readings (16)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2022-06-14
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2022-06-14
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.31
Complete Load-Haul-Dump
2022-06-14
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.23
Complete Load-Haul-Dump
2022-06-14
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.45
Laborer, Bullgang
2022-06-14
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.49
Laborer, Bullgang
2022-01-12
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1.24
1.7
0.73
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2022-01-12
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Electrician
2022-01-12
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1.35
1.39
0.97
Drill Helper
2022-01-12
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.81
1.49
0.54
Drill Helper
2019-11-05
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2019-11-05
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2019-11-05
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2019-11-05
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Drill Helper
2019-11-05
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2018-08-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2018-08-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
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.
Gold Links recorded 9.18 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2022.
Injury rate, 2022
ⓘ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.
9.18
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.78 and the all-US-mining average was 2.12 cases per 100 workers.
In Colorado, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.14 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
2025
0
2024
0
2023
0
2022
21
2021
9
2020
1
2019
10
2018
8
2017
7
2016
2
2014
10
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Gold Links sits in Gunnison 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.
Gunnison County, Colorado · Population 17,158
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$77,358
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
The miner was preparing to rock bolt heading after taking a normal round. When EE began to maneuver the jack leg, EE popped their right shoulder. EE's heading was clean and there were not any tripping hazards.
The lead miner was bolting the face heading. The engineer and miner had both scaled the heading prior to the event. While bolting, a rock slid from the rib cutting through the miners boot. The injury broke EE's second to smallest toe and EE had a laceration on the foot. The shift supervisor investigated the heading and found that the rock became dislodged during bolting.
2021 · 1 incident
November 26, 2021CO · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
The employee was walking to the portal and slipped on snowpack and ice landing on EE's left shoulder. The employee felt that EE was fine and we did not seek medical attention. The employee finished the 3 days left in EE's rotation. I checked in with the employee and EE stated EE was still feeling sore after 7 days off. I instructed EE that EE needed to see a doctor.
A supplier from Munro Supply had dropped of some supplies in the office. They suffered a major heart attack and passed away. They were later found by a employee and CPR and AED were administered and 911 was called.