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NORTHERN PORTABLE PLANT #22: 1 recorded fatality Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Holcim Ltd
Garfield, Garfield County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0503802

NORTHERN PORTABLE PLANT #22 has $483 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
9
Years on record
1988–1998
Latest incident
Jul 1998
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
7
citations
2
significant & substantial
$483
proposed penalties
$483
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Lafarge West Incorporated's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
4
inspections on record
54
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: 54 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

NORTHERN PORTABLE PLANT #22 has $483 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$483
proposed penalties
$483
current assessed
$483
paid to date
$0
outstanding
6 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $371 in penalties contested before the Commission, $55 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2002-02-06.
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
57.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 28.6% low, 71.4% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Contested penalties
ⓘ A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
WEST20000401M Settlement Barbour 2000 $371 → $55
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

NORTHERN PORTABLE PLANT #22 recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2001.

Injury rate, 2001
ⓘ 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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.48 and the all-US-mining average was 5.26 cases per 100 workers.
In Colorado, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 5.52 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
2001 * 0.00 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. Roaring Fork Sand & Gravel 1982 to 1985
  2. Roaring Fork Aggregates Inc 1985 to 2001
  3. Western Mobile Northern Inc 2001 to 2002
  4. Lafarge West Incorporated 2002 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2002 7
2001 11
2000 18
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

NORTHERN PORTABLE PLANT #22 sits in Garfield County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 1.5% 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.
Garfield County, Colorado · Population 62,034
1.5%
Mining share of county employment
$86,172
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
2002 Q4 369 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 5,250 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 5,120 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 4,559 4 2 877.4
2001 Q4 5,684 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 5,668 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 11,889 2 0 168.2
2001 Q1 7,579 0 0 0.0
Show 4 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2000 Q4 8,910 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 9,930 1 0 100.7
2000 Q2 12,027 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 9,628 0 0 0.0

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
July 19, 1997 CO · Metal/Non-Metal Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Roaring Fork Aggregates Inc · Struck by powered moving object

SKIDSTEER BOOM LIFTED & CAUGHT HIM IN THE CHEST. IT INJURED THE LIVER. HE INTERNALLY BLED TO DEATH.

Reportable incidents

8 on file (excluding fatalities above)

1998 · 2 incidents

July 22, 1998 CO · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Roaring Fork Aggregates Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE AND ANOTHER EE WERE WORKING ON THE TOGGLE PLATE THAT FELL OUT OF THE JAW CRUSHER. THEY HAD THE PITMAN JACKED FORWARD TO MAKE ROOM THE JACK SLIPPED LETTING THE PITMAN COME BACK WITH THE TO GGLE PLATE, AND FRAME OF THE JAW.

July 22, 1998 CO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Roaring Fork Aggregates Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE AND ANOTHER EE WERE WORKING ON THE TOGGLE PLATE THAT FELL OUT OF THE JAW. THEY HAD THE PITMAN JACKED FORWARD TO MAKE ROOM. THE JACK SLIPPED LETTING THE PITMAN COME BACK WITH TOGGLE PLATE SMASHING EE'S ARM AND OTHER EE'S HAND BETWEEN THE PLATE & FRAM OF THE JAW.

1991 · 2 incidents

October 7, 1991 CO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Roaring Fork Aggregates Inc · Fall from ladders

EMPLOYEE WAS COMING DOWN LADDER FROM CONTROL TOWER,WHEN THE LADDER SWUNG IN BECAUSE THE TWO STABILIZING RODS HOLDING IT OUT CAME OUT OF THEIR SOCKETS.HE FELL ABOUT 10 FT.EMPLOYEE SPRAINED HIS RIGHT ANKLE.

August 28, 1991 CO · Metal/Non-Metal HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Roaring Fork Aggregates Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING SMALL OCKS & DIRT THAT WAS KEEPING A PIVOTED WHEEL FROM ROTATING INTO PROPER POSITION WHEN ANOTHER EMPLOYEE PIVOTED THE TIRE BY HAND & SCRISSORED THE EMPLOYEES FINGER TIP .

1990 · 1 incident

September 24, 1990 CO · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Roaring Fork Aggregates Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

WHILE PUTTING TRACK TOGETHER ON THE DOZER THE COME-A-LONG BROKE AND KNOCKED HIM ON THE BACK RESULTING IN A PINCHED NERVE.

1989 · 2 incidents

November 16, 1989 CO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
Roaring Fork Aggregates Inc · Struck against stationary object

HE STEPPED FROM LOADER TO A PILE OF FORZEN DIRT. HE TWISTED HIS ANKLE AND BROKE IT.

July 28, 1989 CO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Roaring Fork Aggregates Inc · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

HE WAS CHECKING A STUCK ROLLER; THE BELT OR ROLLER GRABBED HIS GLOVE AND PULLED HAND THROUGH ROLLER.

1988 · 1 incident

March 24, 1988 CO · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Roaring Fork Aggregates Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

I.NAME WAS LOWERING THE GIN POLEON THE RIG UP TRUCK HE WAS REMOVING SHEAVE FROM POLES & WAS STANDING ON THE OUTSIDE OF POLE IT MOVED TOWARDS HIM CATCHING HIS LOWER LEG HIS LOWER LEG WAS CUT & BADLY BRUISED