Mining Incidents

Plum Creek Pit: 2 reportable incidents Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Redland Plc
Douglas County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0503753

MSHA record for Plum Creek Pit (mine ID 0503753). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1988
Latest incident
Mar 1988
Ownership history
  1. Rks Industries Inc 1981 to 1985
  2. Mobile Premix Company 1985 to 1987
  3. Mobile Premix Company 1987 to 1988
  4. Mobile Premix Sand & Gravel Company 1988 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Plum Creek Pit sits in Douglas 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.
Douglas County, Colorado · Population 368,283
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$145,737
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1988 · 2 incidents

March 14, 1988 CO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Mobile Premix Company · Fall onto or against objects

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND ROCK AND FELL BACKWARD ON ROCK.

February 25, 1988 CO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mobile Premix Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

HANDING SCREEN MATERIAL CAUGHT FINGERS BETWEEN SCREEN AND FRACTURED TIP OF FINGERS BETWEEN SCREEN AND FRACTURED TIP OF FINGERS.BACK PLATE AT SCREEN FRAME WORK.