Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher (P-3): 28 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Lafarge Southwest · Surface
Controlled by Lafarge S A
Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, NM  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2902137

Portable Crusher (P-3) has $10K 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
3
Years on record
1995–2000
Latest incident
Mar 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
28
citations
13
significant & substantial
$9,650
proposed penalties
$9,650
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
12
inspections on record
153
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: 153 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 (P-3) has $10K 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
28 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2002-05-22.
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.
46.4%
significant & substantial
3.6%
high negligence or reckless
46.4%
reasonably likely or greater
96.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 3.6% low, 92.9% moderate, 3.6% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher (P-3) recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2001.

Injury rate, 2001
This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.48 and the all-US-mining average was 5.26 cases per 100 workers.
In New Mexico, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.69 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Corn Construction Company 1994 to 1999
  2. Western Mobile Northern Inc 1999 to 2001
  3. Lafarge Southwest 2001 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2003 3
2002 7
2001 8
2000 15
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher (P-3) sits in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Bernalillo County, New Mexico · Population 674,357
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$66,514
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
2003 Q3 3,694 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 2,113 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 713 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,420 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 8,109 2 1 246.6
2002 Q1 3,415 15 8 4392.4
2001 Q4 5,223 0 0 0.0
Show 6 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2001 Q3 9,045 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 5,286 1 0 189.2
2001 Q1 6,388 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,689 3 0 1115.7
2000 Q2 9,810 4 3 407.7
2000 Q1 11,536 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2000 · 1 incident

March 8, 2000 NM · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner MACHINERY
Western Mobile Northern Inc · Struck by flying object

EE WAS STANDING ON TOP OF IMPACTOR, IT WAS SHUT DOWN. HE WAS TURNING ON WATER AND GAVE THE SIGN TO START IT UP. AT THAT TIME METAL PLATE INSIDE BROKE. THE IMPACT OR A WEDGE HIT EE IN THE BOTTO M OF THE FOOT OR ANKLE. EE HOPPED OVER TO BRAKE AND SHUT DOWN MACHINE. OUR FIRST RESPONSE PROVIDED 1ST AID AND TRANSPORTED TO HOSPITAL.

1996 · 1 incident

July 2, 1996 NM · Metal/Non-Metal superintendent POWERED HAULAGE
Corn Construction Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE AND RUST TRACKTOR MECHANIC, WERE WORKIGN UNDER A HOISTED BUCKET OF 980F LOADER ON VALVE BODY ASSEMBLY WHEN THE HOIST GAVE WAY CATHCING EE BETWEEN HOIST ARM AND LOADER TIRE, CRUSHING HIM. W AS TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO THE HOSPITAL IN SNATA ROSA, FOUND BROEN RIBS AND BRUISED LUNGS. WAS THEN TRANSFERED TO ALBUQUERQUE HOSPITAL WHERE IT WAS DISCOVRED THAT HE ALSO HAD A FRACTURED SCAPUL

1995 · 1 incident

January 5, 1995 NM · Metal/Non-Metal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Corn Construction Company · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

EMPLOYEE WAS ANTIFREEZING AIR LIENS ON EQUIPMENT, POURED TANNER GAS IN AIR VALVE AND OPENED VALVE WHICH ADDED AIR PRESSURE, RESULTING IN GAS BLOWING IN HIS EYE. THIS CAUSED HIM TO MISS TWO DA YS OF WORK.