Mining Incidents

Swift Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Alamosa, Alamosa County, CO  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 0503992

Swift Pit has $28K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 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 2000
116
citations
27
significant & substantial
$27,819
proposed penalties
$22,520
paid to date
81% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $5,299 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
43
inspections on record
552
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: 552 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Swift Pit has $28K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 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.
$28K
proposed penalties
$23K
current assessed
$23K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
116 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-07-22.
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
2024 Q4 425 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 482 2 0 4149.4
2024 Q2 330 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 229 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 856 1 0 1168.2
2022 Q2 633 1 0 1579.8
2021 Q3 153 15 1 98039.2
Show 86 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q2 741 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 557 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 225 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 229 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 77 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 1,115 5 0 4484.3
2019 Q3 632 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,026 6 1 5848.0
2019 Q1 421 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 376 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 129 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 539 9 0 16697.6
2018 Q1 264 1 0 3787.9
2017 Q4 466 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 332 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 526 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 64 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 593 5 1 8431.7
2016 Q3 767 5 1 6518.9
2016 Q2 475 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 261 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 218 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 672 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 153 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 229 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,105 3 0 2714.9
2014 Q3 1,076 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 517 5 2 9671.2
2014 Q1 260 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 144 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 333 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 407 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 368 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 310 4 0 12903.2
2012 Q3 196 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 829 3 2 3618.8
2012 Q1 113 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 565 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 779 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,307 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 356 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 930 1 0 1075.3
2010 Q3 1,389 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,335 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1,253 3 2 2394.3
2009 Q4 751 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 460 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 201 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 191 3 0 15706.8
2008 Q4 152 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 796 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 195 1 1 5128.2
2008 Q1 125 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 850 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,518 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,519 2 2 1316.7
2007 Q1 608 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,320 3 0 2272.7
2006 Q3 1,152 3 0 2604.2
2006 Q2 59 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 112 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 848 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,124 7 4 6227.8
2005 Q2 1,876 1 0 533.0
2005 Q1 1,128 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,380 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 360 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 723 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,390 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,280 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,320 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 741 5 0 6747.6
2002 Q4 827 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,544 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 633 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 77 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 942 6 3 6369.4
2001 Q3 967 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,250 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 1,038 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,350 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,994 15 7 5010.0
2000 Q2 1,217 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 812 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.

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The full compliance file on Swift Pit

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.