Mining Incidents

Pit Number One Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Marilyn Diamond
Buena Vista, Chaffee County, CO  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0504714

Pit Number One has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 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 2007
12
citations
4
significant & substantial
$1,770
proposed penalties
$1,619
paid to date
91% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $151 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
11
inspections on record
145
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: 145 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Pit Number One has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$151
outstanding
12 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-25.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2025 Q4 435 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 50 3 2 60000.0
2025 Q2 900 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 119 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 20 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 0 0 0
2013 Q2 0 0 0
2012 Q4 80 0 0 0.0
Show 26 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2012 Q3 679 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 293 1 0 3413.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 46 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 849 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 876 1 1 1141.6
2011 Q1 360 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 80 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 360 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 624 4 0 6410.3
2010 Q1 50 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 869 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 340 1 0 2941.2
2009 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 40 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,300 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,200 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 20 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 850 1 1 1176.5
2002 Q3 0 0 0
2002 Q2 0 0 0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 0 0 0
2001 Q3 118 0 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.

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The full compliance file on Pit Number One

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.