Last Chance Mine: 5 MSHA citations
Metal/Non-Metal
Last Chance Mine has $500 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
- 4
- Years on record
- 1999–2008
- Latest incident
- Jul 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
0
significant & substantial
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 38 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Last Chance Mine has $500 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
5 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-04-23.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
0.0%
significant & substantial
80.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
20.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 20.0% moderate, 80.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
| Year |
Employees |
| 2009 |
5 |
| 2008 |
13 |
| 2007 |
10 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Last Chance Mine sits in Montrose County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 1.1% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.
Montrose County, Colorado · Population 43,272
1.1%
Mining share of county employment
$66,072
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
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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 |
| 2009 Q1 |
1,251 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2008 Q4 |
5,046 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2008 Q3 |
4,522 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2008 Q2 |
4,504 |
5 |
0 |
1110.1 |
| 2008 Q1 |
4,370 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2007 Q4 |
4,563 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2007 Q3 |
1,967 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file
2008 · 1 incident
July 3, 2008
CO · Metal/Non-Metal
bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss
MACHINERY
Nuvemco LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Attempting to drive a split bolt with jack leg, the bolt driver on jack leg slipped out of bolt causing miner to get his finger caught between jack leg and bolt, this caused a cut on the left hand middle finger, which required 6 stitches.
1999 · 3 incidents
February 16, 1999
CO · Metal/Non-Metal
OTHER
Excel Mining Company Inc · Unclassified, insufficient data
NONE
EMPLOYEE STEPPED FROM AN UNDERGROUND TRACTOR,ANDTHOUGHT HE TWISTED HIS RIGHT ANKLE. INSTEAD, HE BROKE LOWER LEG INSTEAD.
January 27, 1999
CO · Metal/Non-Metal
laborer, bull gang, faceman, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
L S C Mining Company · Fall onto or against objects
EMPLOYEE WAS BARRING DOWN, JUMPED OUT OFTHE WAY AND FELL DOWN ON A MUCK PILE.