Ragsdale Reservoirs has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $292 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Years on record
2023–2024
Latest incident
Jun 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2022
25
citations
6
significant & substantial
$4,463
proposed penalties
$4,171
paid to date
93% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $292 gap.
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: 228 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Ragsdale Reservoirs has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $292 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$292
outstanding
21 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-21.
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.
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: 2026-07-09
7
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg7
Show the individual readings (7)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2026-07-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2026-07-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Supervisor, Co. Official
2026-07-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2022-09-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2022-09-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2022-09-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2022-09-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Washer Operator
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.
Ragsdale Reservoirs recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Colorado, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.64 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.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2025 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2024 *
3.48
0.00
0.000
2023 *
27.11
4.52
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
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
2026
22
2025
24
2024
21
2023
14
2022
15
2021
8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Ragsdale Reservoirs sits in Weld County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 2.4% 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.
Weld County, Colorado · Population 340,711
2.4%
Mining share of county employment
$93,287
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
14,548
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
13,568
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
15,857
4
0
252.3
2025 Q3
17,935
3
2
167.3
2025 Q2
16,178
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
8,478
4
0
471.8
2024 Q4
14,098
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
15,588
1
0
64.2
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
15,516
3
0
193.3
2024 Q1
12,273
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
11,963
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
11,615
4
1
344.4
2023 Q2
10,477
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
10,202
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
11,185
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
14,442
2
2
138.5
2022 Q2
13,651
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
8,931
0
0
0.0
2021 Q4
1,997
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
7 on file
2024 · 1 incident
June 24, 2024CO · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techDISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS)
New hire mechanic was working on equipment at the Ragsdale location. While they were working, their peers recognized that they were not acting like themselves and recognized signs of heat stress. Employee left the site at 3:15PM. The following morning, they went to the doctor since they were not feeling well. At 4:00PM on 4/25/24 they were admitted for dehydration and heat stroke.
While reinstalling a head pulley after a bearing replacement, the miner was using a crow bar to loosen the motor adjusting nuts. EE felt a pop in the right shoulder.
August 8, 2023CO · Metal/Non-Metalminer, prospector, necMACHINERY
L.G. Everist, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Operator when entering a loader, pinched finger between the door and the door frame. Operator refused treatment on first day. Went in for treatment on 5/2/2023. Diagnosed with fracture of the fingertip.
March 13, 2023CO · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Operator was attempting to remove a worn tooth from a payloader bucket using a hammer. A small section of the tooth chipped off striking their upper left arm causing a laceration.
February 27, 2023CO · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanDISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)