Mining Incidents

Mann Lake Pit: 28 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Holcim Ltd
Brighton, Adams County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0503453

Mann Lake Pit has $3K 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
16
Years on record
1986–2003
Latest incident
Sep 2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
28
citations
4
significant & substantial
$2,626
proposed penalties
$2,626
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
8
inspections on record
117
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: 117 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mann Lake Pit has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
28 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-07-01.
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.
14.3%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
14.3%
reasonably likely or greater
25.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 10.7% low, 89.3% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2001-05-09, 25 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2001-05-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 0.34 0.47 Laborer, Bullgang
2001-05-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.45 0.33 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.

Mann Lake Pit recorded 16.41 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2003.

Injury rate, 2003
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.
16.41
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.43 cases per 100 workers.
In Colorado, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 5.53 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.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2003 * 16.41 0.00 0.000
2002 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2001 * 10.53 0.00 0.000
2000 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
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. Mobile Premix Concrete Inc 1979 to 1987
  2. Mobile Premix Concrete 1987 to 1988
  3. Western Mobile Denver Aggregate 1988 to 1998
  4. Western Mobile Inc 1998 to 2001
  5. Western Mobile Denver-Aggregate 2001 to 2002
  6. Lafarge West Incorporated 2002 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2003 9
2002 10
2001 12
2000 12
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Mann Lake Pit 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
2003 Q4 2,410 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 7,148 6 1 839.4
2003 Q2 6,826 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 7,996 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 8,413 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 9,085 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 10,596 2 1 188.8
2002 Q1 12,774 0 0 0.0
Show 8 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2001 Q4 9,936 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 9,551 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 9,596 14 2 1458.9
2001 Q1 8,916 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 2,549 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 6,742 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 10,842 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 8,352 6 0 718.4
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

16 on file

2003 · 2 incidents

September 24, 2003 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lafarge West Incorporated · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING WITH A FORKLIFT OPERATOR TO PLACE A NEW HDPE PIPE. WHILE THE FORKLIFT WAS AWAY DELIVERING A LOAD OF PIPE, THE EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO LIFT AND CARRY THREE 20' SECTIONS OF PI PE INSTEAD OF WAITING FOR FORKLIFT TO RETURN TO DO THE JOB, CAUSING HIM TO STRAIN HIS BACK.

August 29, 2003 CO · Metal/Non-Metal miner, nec OTHER
Lafarge West Incorporated · Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE FELT A POP IN HIS KNEE WHEN HE STOOD UP FROM A KNEELING POSITION.

2001 · 2 incidents

January 18, 2001 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Western Mobile Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

SHOVELING FGROZEN MATERIAL FROM UNDER THE ROADBASE STACKER, SLIPPED ON ICE, CAUGHT HIMSELF WITH HAND.

1999 · 1 incident

March 17, 1999 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Western Mobile Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

USING A BAR TO CLEAN MUD OUT OF CRUSHER AND FINGER CAUGHT AGAINST SCREEN.

1998 · 2 incidents

July 17, 1998 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Western Mobile Inc · Struck by falling object

DROPPED SCREEN ON FOOT.

March 30, 1998 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Western Mobile Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

PICKING MUD ON BELT, TOOK A LARGE PIECE OFF AND FELT PAIN IN BACK

1996 · 2 incidents

October 24, 1996 CO · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales OTHER
Western Mobile Denver Aggregate · Struck against stationary object

WORKING IN OFFICE A PERSON CAME IN AND WIND BLEWINTO OFFICE FROM OPEN DOOR. PAPER WENT FLYING. SCALE CLERK TRIED TO CATCH PAPERS AND HIT RIB CAGE ON EDGE OF COUNTER.

1995 · 1 incident

1991 · 2 incidents

June 7, 1991 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Western Mobile Denver Aggregate · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE STEPPED UP ON A PIECE OF ANGLE IRON TAIL PULLEY GUARD TO TURN ON A WATER VALVE. HE LOST HIS BALANCE AND FELL TO THE GROUND. (VIOLATION OF A SAFETY RULE) CUT THE BACK OF HIS HEAD ON A BOARD.

1990 · 1 incident

February 14, 1990 CO · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Western Mobile Denver Aggregate · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

ROCK SLID ONTO FINGER. PINCHED IT AGAINST OTHER SMALL ROCK.

1989 · 1 incident

1986 · 2 incidents

December 24, 1986 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mobile Premix Concrete Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

MOVING FROZEN P3ECE OF MATERIAL HE CAUGHT WRIST BETWEEN CONVEYOR SUPPORT STEEL AND FROZEN PIECE OF MATERIAL HURTING HIS WRIST

September 22, 1986 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Mobile Premix Concrete Inc · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

CLEANING-EMPLOY9E JUMPED FROM CONVEYOR PLATFROM