Mining Incidents

Welte Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Summit Pressed Brick & Tile Company · Surface
Controlled by Joseph C Welte
Las Animas County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0502196

MSHA record for Welte Pit (mine ID 0502196). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Ownership history
  1. Summit Pressed Brick & Tile Company 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Welte Pit sits in Las Animas County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 2.5% 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.
Las Animas County, Colorado · Population 14,392
2.5%
Mining share of county employment
$50,408
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

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.