Mining Incidents

Meeker Stone Company: 12 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Shawn Bolton
Meeker, Rio Blanco County, CO  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0505075

Meeker Stone Company has $1K 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
1
Years on record
2017
Latest incident
Jul 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
12
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,439
proposed penalties
$1,439
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
11
inspections on record
204
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: 204 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Meeker Stone Company has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
12 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-06-25.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
16.7%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
16.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 50.0% low, 33.3% moderate, 16.7% 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: 2025-10-06
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (8)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-10-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Hand Loader
2025-10-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Forklift Operator
2021-05-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.47 0.28 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2021-05-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Forklift Operator
2017-09-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2017-09-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2017-09-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2017-09-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
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.
Ownership history
  1. Meeker Stone Company, LLC 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 4
2022 0
2021 3
2020 6
2019 5
2018 6
2017 7
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Meeker Stone Company sits in Rio Blanco County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 9.1% 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.
Rio Blanco County, Colorado · Population 6,518
9.1%
Mining share of county employment
$72,620
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
2026 Q2 184 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 554 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 961 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 827 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 0 0 0
2022 Q2 0 0 0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
Show 19 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q4 16 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,137 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,025 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,569 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,343 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,823 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,034 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,830 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,940 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,900 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,278 6 0 4694.8
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 1,404 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 469 2 0 4264.4
2018 Q2 2,389 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 2,742 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 2,279 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,232 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 815 4 0 4908.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2017 · 1 incident

July 18, 2017 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Meeker Stone Company, LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Individual was sorting loose flagstone pieces. EE twisted ankle between two rocks. While falling, ee let go of the rock ee was holding onto and it landed on the injured foot as well.