Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher# 2 Metal/Non-Metal

Montrose CO, Montrose County, CO  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0505036

Portable Crusher# 2 has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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 2015
46
citations
19
significant & substantial
$9,074
proposed penalties
$8,574
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $500 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
14
inspections on record
182
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: 182 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher# 2 has $9K 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.
$9K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
46 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-27.
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 2,878 1 0 347.5
2025 Q3 2,964 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 5,779 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,280 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,933 3 1 1022.8
2024 Q3 17 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,588 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,587 0 0 0.0
Show 29 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 3,915 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,950 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,180 8 4 3669.7
2023 Q1 2,072 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 4,122 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,994 8 2 2672.0
2022 Q2 850 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,772 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,061 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,790 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,682 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,547 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,101 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,776 13 8 7319.8
2020 Q1 1,167 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q3 1,408 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,015 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 2,214 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 2,443 2 0 818.7
2018 Q3 2,760 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,506 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 853 3 0 3517.0
2017 Q3 1,526 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,040 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,376 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,584 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,855 8 4 4312.7
2015 Q1 1,549 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 Portable Crusher# 2

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.