Mining Incidents

West Farm Pit-Wash Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Lamar, Prowers County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0505038

West Farm Pit-Wash Plant has $7K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
9
citations
5
significant & substantial
$7,497
proposed penalties
$3,491
paid to date
47% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,006 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
10
inspections on record
109
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: 109 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

West Farm Pit-Wash Plant has $7K 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
8 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-01-30.
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
2018 Q4 3,300 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,879 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 3,350 1 0 298.5
2018 Q1 1,490 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,259 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 858 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 874 5 4 5720.8
2017 Q1 865 0 0 0.0
Show 8 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2016 Q4 1,074 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 882 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 892 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 762 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 435 1 0 2298.9
2015 Q3 994 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,171 1 0 854.0
2015 Q1 406 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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