Portable Unit #3 Metal/Non-Metal
Colorado Quarries Inc
· Surface
Controlled by
Bill Tezak
Westcliffe,
Custer County,
CO
·
Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0504948
Portable Unit #3 has $7K 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
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
47
citations
8
significant & substantial
$6,641
proposed penalties
$6,641
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2010
25
inspections on record
343
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.Rate withheld: 343 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 Unit #3 has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
47 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-22.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
See also
the operator's enforcement record
Quarterly safety rates
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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 | 2,377 | 3 | 0 | 1262.1 |
| 2025 Q3 | 1,659 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q2 | 1,659 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q1 | 1,526 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q4 | 1,492 | 2 | 0 | 1340.5 |
| 2024 Q3 | 1,291 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q2 | 1,302 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q1 | 1,223 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Q4 | 1,657 | 1 | 0 | 603.5 |
| 2023 Q3 | 1,136 | 2 | 1 | 1760.6 |
| 2023 Q2 | 1,728 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q1 | 1,308 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q4 | 1,386 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q3 | 815 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q2 | 1,527 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q1 | 755 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q3 | 1,317 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q2 | 962 | 3 | 1 | 3118.5 |
| 2021 Q1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q4 | 1,193 | 1 | 0 | 838.2 |
| 2020 Q3 | 1,020 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q2 | 893 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q1 | 340 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q4 | 762 | 1 | 0 | 1312.3 |
| 2019 Q3 | 862 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q2 | 1,821 | 2 | 0 | 1098.3 |
| 2019 Q1 | 1,477 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q4 | 909 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q3 | 1,070 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2018 Q1 | 1,703 | 5 | 0 | 2936.0 |
| 2017 Q4 | 671 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q3 | 1,762 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2017 Q2 | 1,732 | 1 | 0 | 577.4 |
| 2017 Q1 | 1,380 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q4 | 1,105 | 2 | 1 | 1810.0 |
| 2016 Q3 | 592 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 Q2 | 1,338 | 3 | 0 | 2242.2 |
| 2016 Q1 | 734 | 1 | 0 | 1362.4 |
| 2015 Q4 | 1,085 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q3 | 1,875 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q2 | 862 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2015 Q1 | 2,067 | 8 | 2 | 3870.3 |
| 2014 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2014 Q3 | 880 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 Q2 | 1,790 | 4 | 1 | 2234.6 |
| 2014 Q1 | 1,118 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q4 | 1,173 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2013 Q3 | 784 | 3 | 0 | 3826.5 |
| 2013 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2013 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2012 Q4 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q2 | 1,927 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2012 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2011 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2011 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2011 Q2 | 1,170 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2011 Q1 | 715 | 2 | 0 | 2797.2 |
| 2010 Q4 | 1,106 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2010 Q3 | 1,213 | 3 | 2 | 2473.2 |
| 2010 Q2 | 1,387 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2010 Q1 | 1,820 | 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 Unit #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.