Portable Unit #4 Metal/Non-Metal
Colorado Quarries Inc
· Surface
Controlled by
Bill Tezak
Canon City,
Custer County,
CO
·
Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0504384
Portable Unit #4 has $4K 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
- 0
- Years on record
- —
- Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2019
26
citations
2
significant & substantial
$4,174
proposed penalties
$4,174
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
10
inspections on record
186
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: 186 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 #4 has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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.$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
26 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-23.
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 | 1,342 | 1 | 0 | 745.2 |
| 2025 Q3 | 1,223 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q2 | 1,276 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q1 | 1,428 | 2 | 0 | 1400.6 |
| 2024 Q4 | 2,036 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q3 | 582 | 1 | 0 | 1718.2 |
| 2024 Q2 | 1,283 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q1 | 1,025 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Q4 | 701 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q3 | 1,325 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q2 | 709 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2500000.0 |
| 2022 Q4 | 175 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q3 | 1,562 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q2 | 1,882 | 7 | 2 | 3719.4 |
| 2022 Q1 | 1,183 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q4 | 1,328 | 1 | 0 | 753.0 |
| 2021 Q3 | 1,514 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q2 | 1,470 | 1 | 0 | 680.3 |
| 2021 Q1 | 1,429 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q4 | 609 | 4 | 0 | 6568.1 |
| 2020 Q3 | 1,252 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q2 | 610 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q1 | 669 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q4 | 911 | 4 | 0 | 4390.8 |
| 2019 Q3 | 1,744 | 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 #4
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.