Mining Incidents

Silt Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Silt, Garfield County, CO  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0504881

Silt Plant has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2024–2025
Latest incident
Apr 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
52
citations
12
significant & substantial
$11,903
proposed penalties
$11,860
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $43 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
49
inspections on record
686
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: 686 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Silt Plant has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$12K
proposed penalties
$12K
current assessed
$12K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
51 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-01-29.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2025 Q4 5,583 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 5,619 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 4,389 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,413 2 0 586.0
2024 Q4 3,616 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,916 1 0 255.4
2024 Q2 3,665 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,712 1 1 269.4
Show 67 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 4,570 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 4,553 2 0 439.3
2023 Q2 4,115 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3,504 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 3,431 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 4,007 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,797 2 0 526.7
2022 Q1 3,144 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,656 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,079 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,183 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,888 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,642 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,816 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,348 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 3,702 1 0 270.1
2019 Q4 3,943 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 4,094 2 1 488.5
2019 Q2 3,902 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 3,702 1 0 270.1
2018 Q4 4,222 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 4,200 1 0 238.1
2018 Q2 3,584 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 3,221 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 3,648 2 1 548.2
2017 Q3 3,411 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,346 2 1 597.7
2017 Q1 3,176 2 0 629.7
2016 Q4 3,394 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 3,438 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 3,355 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 3,282 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 3,768 6 2 1592.4
2015 Q3 3,484 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 3,240 6 0 1851.9
2015 Q1 2,690 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,982 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 3,280 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,126 7 3 2239.3
2014 Q1 2,753 5 2 1816.2
2013 Q4 2,906 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,929 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 2,577 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,588 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,778 1 0 562.4
2012 Q3 2,267 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,143 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,872 2 0 1068.4
2011 Q4 1,757 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 2,267 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,616 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 2,733 1 0 365.9
2010 Q4 2,141 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,503 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 4,066 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1,896 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 3,270 4 1 1223.2
2009 Q3 5,001 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 3,806 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 3,081 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 5,302 1 0 188.6
2008 Q3 6,780 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 6,012 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 4,465 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 5,104 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 6,013 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 227 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2025 · 1 incident

April 24, 2025 CO · Metal/Non-Metal dry screening plant operator, screen house operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Western Slope Materials, LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

At approximately 8:00AM employee noticed a piece of metal railing had fallen over at the main plant screen deck. At this time employee shut down plant and proceeded to the screen deck walkway to move the fallen railing. When employee went to lift the fallen section they felt a pop and pain in their right bicep. Metal railing section weighed approximately 50 pounds.

2024 · 2 incidents

July 31, 2024 CO · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Western Slope Materials, LLC · Struck by falling object

At approximately 10AM on July 31st employee was helping change the trough assembly weighing about 30 -40 pounds that was sitting on top of the lower belt at 5 feet off the ground. During handling of the trough lost grip and the assembly impacted EE's right boot causing a laceration. Employee received five stitches and zero work restrictions.

January 26, 2024 CO · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Western Slope Materials, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee was not clear of the suspended load. The conveyor support leg was landed on a 6" x 6" piece of wood which was unstable in this instance due to ground conditions. It kicked out causing the conveyor leg to impact the worker's foot.

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The full compliance file on Silt Plant

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.