Mining Incidents

Keenesburg Project: 7 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Guidon Holdings, LLC
Keenesburg, Weld County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0505110

Keenesburg Project has $939 in proposed MSHA penalties and $242 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
2019
Latest incident
Nov 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2019
7
citations
2
significant & substantial
$939
proposed penalties
$697
paid to date
74% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $242 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
1
inspections on record
50
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: 50 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Keenesburg Project has $939 in proposed MSHA penalties and $242 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.
$939
proposed penalties
$939
current assessed
$697
paid to date
$242
outstanding
7 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-10-02.
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.
28.6%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
28.6%
reasonably likely or greater
28.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. PAS Mining Solutions, LLC 2019 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2020 39
2019 21
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Keenesburg Project sits in Weld County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 2.4% 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.
Weld County, Colorado · Population 340,711
2.4%
Mining share of county employment
$93,287
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
2020 Q1 15,246 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 12,369 2 0 161.7
2019 Q3 6,063 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2019 · 1 incident

November 1, 2019 CO · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec POWERED HAULAGE
PAS Mining Solutions, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Crew was using a telehandler to lift a mud pump to bolt to infeed hose. When lifted, the pump jumped up, startling a crewmember to fall backwards and kick EE's right leg under the pump frame as it was coming back to rest, inflicting an abrasion and bruise to the right of EE's shin.