Mining Incidents

Northern Portable Plant #5: 9 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Holcim Ltd
Fort Collins, Larimer County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0504330

Northern Portable Plant #5 has $825 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
1992
Latest incident
Aug 1992
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
9
citations
3
significant & substantial
$825
proposed penalties
$825
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
9
inspections on record
63
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: 63 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 #5 has $825 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.
$825
proposed penalties
$825
current assessed
$825
paid to date
$0
outstanding
9 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2002-11-05.
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.
33.3%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
33.3%
reasonably likely or greater
44.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 11.1% low, 88.9% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Plains Aggregate Company 1988 to 1989
  2. Western-Mobile Northern Inc 1989 to 1998
  3. Western Mobile Northern Inc 1998 to 2002
  4. Lafarge West Incorporated 2002 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2004 3
2003 2
2002 2
2001 2
2000 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Northern Portable Plant #5 sits in Larimer County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 0.6% 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.
Larimer County, Colorado · Population 363,561
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$91,364
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
2004 Q4 70 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,587 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,803 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,156 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,289 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,167 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,168 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
Show 12 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2002 Q4 1,087 2 1 1839.9
2002 Q3 1,453 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,342 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 1,228 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,322 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,481 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,708 3 1 1756.4
2001 Q1 367 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 775 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,130 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,580 4 1 2531.6
2000 Q1 273 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1992 · 1 incident

August 4, 1992 CO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Western-Mobile Northern Inc · Fall from machine

LOADER OPERATOR DESCENDED TO LAST STEP BEFORE GROUND AND WAS WEARING IMPROPER SHOES HE SLIPPED AND SPRAINED ANKLE.