Mining Incidents

Portable Wash Plant #3: 7 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by CRH PLC
Manzanola, Crowley County, CO  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0505121

Portable Wash Plant #3 has $989 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
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
7
citations
1
significant & substantial
$989
proposed penalties
$989
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2021
8
inspections on record
69
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: 69 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 Wash Plant #3 has $989 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.
$989
proposed penalties
$989
current assessed
$989
paid to date
$0
outstanding
7 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-09-09.
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.
14.3%
significant & substantial
14.3%
high negligence or reckless
14.3%
reasonably likely or greater
57.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 14.3% low, 71.4% moderate, 14.3% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. A & S Construction Co. 2020 to 2024
  2. Oldcastle SW Group, Inc 2024 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 1
2024 3
2023 3
2022 2
2021 4
2020 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Wash Plant #3 sits in Crowley County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Crowley County, Colorado · Population 5,734
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$47,563
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 1,218 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 903 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 204 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 228 1 0 4386.0
2025 Q2 254 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 106 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 260 0 0 0.0
Show 17 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 296 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,265 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,541 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,618 3 0 1854.1
2023 Q2 432 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,064 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 185 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 0 0 0
2022 Q2 897 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q3 40 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,742 3 1 1722.2
2021 Q1 1,637 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 531 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 2,730 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 671 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.