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: 520 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘA Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
2
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2014-01-08.
On record since 2012.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
Providence Mine has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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
$6K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
40 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $701 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-01-08.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘContesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
5citations taken to the federal commission · 12% of citations on record
Settled
5 · 100%
50%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘCounts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 4 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
66%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$2K proposed, $701 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2012-06-18.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Health sampling
ⓘA sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.
Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘMany samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2012-05-01, 14 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg4
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Diesel particulate (total carbon)1
Show the individual readings (9)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2012-05-01
TC @ 160
80
160
0.50
Cont. Miner Operator
2012-05-01
TC from EC @ 160
0
160
0.00
Cont. Miner Operator
2012-05-01
EC @ 160
15
160
0.09
Cont. Miner Operator
2011-08-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Jackhammer Operator
2011-08-03
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.57
Utility Man
2011-08-03
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Raise Borer Operator
2006-03-30
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.13
Miner, Drift
2006-03-30
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Hoist Operator
2006-03-30
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Miner, Drift
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Providence Mine recorded 6.80 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2011.
Injury rate, 2011
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
6.80
total case rate
6.80
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.56 and the all-US-mining average was 3.08 cases per 100 workers.
In Colorado, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.65 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2013
5
2012
12
2011
18
2007
0
2006
5
2005
5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Providence Mine sits in Teller County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 2.2% 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.
Teller County, Colorado · Population 24,774
2.2%
Mining share of county employment
$80,666
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
2013 Q4
2,054
4
0
1947.4
2013 Q3
3,568
0
0
0.0
2013 Q2
141
0
0
0.0
2013 Q1
277
0
0
0.0
2012 Q4
3,100
2
0
645.2
2012 Q3
4,819
0
0
0.0
2012 Q2
4,193
1
0
238.5
2012 Q1
4,729
6
2
1268.8
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2011 Q4
10,887
0
0
0.0
2011 Q3
8,584
5
2
582.5
2011 Q2
5,480
0
0
0.0
2011 Q1
4,452
0
0
0.0
2007 Q4
0
0
0
2007 Q3
0
0
0
2007 Q2
0
0
0
2007 Q1
0
0
0
2006 Q3
1,350
1
0
740.7
2006 Q2
2,700
1
0
370.4
2006 Q1
2,700
4
0
1481.5
2005 Q4
2,700
0
0
0.0
2005 Q3
2,160
1
1
463.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file
2011 · 1 incident
July 26, 2011CO · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scalerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Employee was standing on a temporary platform to install safety barricades. He was not wearing fall protection. He stepped off the platform while pounding on a support timber and fell 7 feet to the tunnel floor.
2005 · 1 incident
July 29, 2005CO · Metal/Non-Metalmucking machine operatorMACHINERY
Unknown operator · Struck by flying object
An old station area was being inspected and mucked out. A rock was dislodged from the upper rib and struck the mucker or the shoulder and button resultion in a non penetrating abraison to bother area. There was no bleeding