Mining Incidents

Pride Of The West Ml Silver Wing Co. Inc: 12 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

SILVER WING CO., INC. · Facility
Controlled by Stephen C Fearn
Silverton, San Juan County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0503760

Pride Of The West Ml Silver Wing Co. Inc has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $817 in penalties since 2003, with $817 outstanding.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
—
Latest incident
—
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
12
citations
1
significant & substantial
$817
proposed penalties
$0
paid to date
0% of proposed penalties paid to date. The remaining $817 was reduced, settled, contested or is still owed.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
4
inspections on record
51
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: 51 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Pride Of The West Ml Silver Wing Co. Inc has $817 in proposed MSHA penalties and $817 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.
$817
proposed penalties
$817
current assessed
$0
paid to date
$817
outstanding
11 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2005-02-04.
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.
9.1%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
9.1%
reasonably likely or greater
27.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. P & G Mining Inc 1982 to 1994
  2. P & G Milling & Mining Corp 1994 to 1996
  3. M G M-Maple Grove Mill/Mine 1996 to 2001
  4. SILVER WING CO., INC. 2001 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2004 5
2003 7
2001 6
1996 3
1995 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Pride Of The West Ml Silver Wing Co. Inc sits in San Juan County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
San Juan County, Colorado · Population 690
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$73,889
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; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. 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
2004 Q1 1,369 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,384 2 0 838.9
2003 Q3 4,138 9 1 2175.0
2003 Q2 2,204 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,770 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 2,716 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.