Mining Incidents

Portable Crushing Plant #3 Metal/Non-Metal

Walsenburg, Las Animas County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2902223

Portable Crushing Plant #3 has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2005–2008
Latest incident
Jan 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
57
citations
16
significant & substantial
$7,586
proposed penalties
$7,586
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
30
inspections on record
339
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: 339 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 Crushing Plant #3 has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
56 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-03-21.
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
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q3 23 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,743 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 354 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q2 0 0 0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 174 0 0 0.0
Show 46 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2013 Q3 3,077 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 2,090 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 784 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q2 373 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 350 10 4 28571.4
2011 Q4 40 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 0 1 0
2011 Q2 23 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1,083 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 322 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 338 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 33 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 560 8 4 14285.7
2009 Q4 820 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 2,614 4 0 1530.2
2009 Q2 968 1 0 1033.1
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 3,036 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 2,648 1 0 377.6
2008 Q1 2,340 1 0 427.4
2007 Q4 2,881 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 2,652 4 1 1508.3
2007 Q2 1,708 2 1 1171.0
2006 Q3 0 0 0
2006 Q2 0 0 0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 2,198 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 3,450 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 4,060 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 4,176 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 3,859 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 4,478 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 4,633 3 0 647.5
2004 Q1 3,831 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 3,351 1 0 298.4
2003 Q3 3,910 4 1 1023.0
2003 Q2 2,935 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 3,549 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 4,068 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 4,501 6 2 1333.0
2002 Q2 3,728 11 3 2950.6
2002 Q1 4,360 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 4,079 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 5,056 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2008 · 1 incident

January 22, 2008 CO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Southway Construction Company Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Fixing tear in conveyor belt left hand got caught - smashing it. Employee has been treated at Union County General Hospital.

2005 · 1 incident

April 5, 2005 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Southway Construction Company Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

Cutting a piece of metal from the jaw crusher & it fell onto the chute & slid down the chute pinning the employee's rt. hand under the piece of hot metal. It burned the back of his rt. hand. EE could be away from work for 3 weeks.

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The full compliance file on Portable Crushing Plant #3

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.