Mining Incidents

Pioneer 2148 Portable Jaw Crusher: 56 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Pelino Inc · Surface
Controlled by Scott E Pelino
Buena Vista, Chaffee County, CO  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0504897

Pioneer 2148 Portable Jaw Crusher has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $604 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
56
citations
7
significant & substantial
$8,409
proposed penalties
$7,805
paid to date
93% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $604 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
29
inspections on record
321
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: 321 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Pioneer 2148 Portable Jaw Crusher has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $604 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$604
outstanding
56 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-19.
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.
12.5%
significant & substantial
19.6%
high negligence or reckless
12.5%
reasonably likely or greater
41.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.1% low, 73.2% moderate, 19.6% 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: 2022-09-20, 3 years ago
3
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2022-09-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-06-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-02-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
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. Pelino Inc 2008 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 7
2025 5
2024 9
2023 4
2022 3
2021 4
2020 3
2019 4
2018 4
2017 3
2016 1
2015 1
2014 0
2010 0
2009 3
2008 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Pioneer 2148 Portable Jaw Crusher sits in Chaffee County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Chaffee County, Colorado · Population 19,876
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$70,909
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 1,951 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1,417 2 0 1411.4
2025 Q4 935 2 0 2139.0
2025 Q3 3,940 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,738 2 0 1150.7
2025 Q1 1,930 3 0 1554.4
2024 Q4 2,326 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,817 0 0 0.0
Show 49 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1,499 1 0 667.1
2024 Q1 1,367 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,316 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,485 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,600 1 0 625.0
2023 Q1 2,495 6 1 2404.8
2022 Q4 1,062 2 1 1883.2
2022 Q3 790 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,290 7 2 5426.4
2022 Q1 600 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 590 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 561 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,305 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,305 7 1 5364.0
2020 Q4 379 1 0 2638.5
2020 Q3 695 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 289 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 643 1 0 1555.2
2019 Q4 484 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 310 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 691 6 1 8683.1
2019 Q1 547 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 618 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,027 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,291 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 552 6 0 10869.6
2017 Q4 210 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 120 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 156 7 1 44871.8
2017 Q1 44 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 214 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 6 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 165 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 353 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 0 0 0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q3 0 0 0
2014 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q3 0 0 0
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 196 1 0 5102.0
2009 Q2 3,635 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1,045 1 0 956.9
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 0 0 0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.