Portable Crusher #9 has $11K 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
2
Years on record
2025
Latest incident
Aug 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2023
13
citations
4
significant & substantial
$11,451
proposed penalties
$11,451
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
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: 115 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 #9 has $11K 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
11 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-08-14.
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.
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: 2023-09-19
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
Show the individual readings (4)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2023-09-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.22
0.66
0.33
Laborer, Bullgang
2023-09-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.28
0.8
0.35
Front-end Loader Operator
2023-09-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.32
0.74
0.43
Front-end Loader Operator
2023-09-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.18
0.63
0.29
Complete Load-Haul-Dump
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
0
2025
7
2024
5
2023
11
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Portable Crusher #9 sits in Fremont 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.
Fremont County, Colorado · Population 49,394
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$61,027
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
0
0
0
2025 Q4
1,763
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
3,661
7
3
1912.0
2025 Q2
2,599
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
1,333
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
2,354
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
1,758
2
0
1137.7
2024 Q2
2,264
0
0
0.0
Show 4 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q1
2,378
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
3,068
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
5,055
4
1
791.3
2023 Q2
3,649
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file
2025 · 2 incidents
August 14, 2025CO · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Employee was cleaning the right side windows on the outside of a Komatsu WA500 front end loader, when they fell from the top of the loader and landed on the ground next to the loader.
July 9, 2025CO · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Conveyor belt had come to a stop, due to being overloaded with material. LOTO was performed, guarding was removed on the wing pulley. Employee used a shovel to remove material, and then they tried to scrape the rest of the material off pulley with right hand. It was at that time the weight conveyor to move backwards, causing the arm to be caught in between the belt arm, and pulley.