Mining Incidents

Heitf Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Mill Iron Mining · Surface
Controlled by Noco Gravel and Sand
LaPorte, Larimer County, CO  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0505025

Heitf Pit has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2014
19
citations
6
significant & substantial
$3,679
proposed penalties
$1,814
paid to date
49% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,865 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
13
inspections on record
100
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: 100 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Heitf Pit has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 1 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
$3K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
18 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-30.
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 4,770 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,576 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 433 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 0 1 0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q1 587 1 0 1703.6
2018 Q4 843 0 0 0.0
Show 13 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2018 Q3 882 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 799 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 707 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 712 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 722 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 781 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 597 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 619 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 739 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 0 0 0
2014 Q3 0 1 0
2014 Q2 60 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 20 6 2 300000.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.

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The full compliance file on Heitf Pit

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.