Mining Incidents

WEST RIFLE PIT Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Wiiliam T Lee
Rifle, Garfield County, CO  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0504658

WEST RIFLE PIT has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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 2004
31
citations
11
significant & substantial
$3,922
proposed penalties
$3,922
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
39
inspections on record
377
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: 377 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 RIFLE PIT has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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
$0
outstanding
30 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-16.
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 1,674 1 1 597.4
2025 Q3 2,401 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,455 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,078 2 1 1855.3
2024 Q4 1,469 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,158 1 0 463.4
2024 Q2 1,842 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,693 0 0 0.0
Show 96 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,208 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,793 2 0 1115.4
2023 Q2 2,253 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 148 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,899 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,296 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,024 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 641 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,740 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,789 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,919 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 805 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,051 2 0 975.1
2020 Q3 1,783 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,777 1 0 562.7
2020 Q1 654 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,285 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,055 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,033 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 823 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,695 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,587 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,690 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 232 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,818 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,987 3 3 1509.8
2017 Q2 2,074 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 876 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,287 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,488 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,002 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 642 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,200 6 3 5000.0
2015 Q3 2,205 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,095 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 841 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,341 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,975 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,964 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,460 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,462 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,404 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,227 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 103 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 900 1 0 1111.1
2012 Q3 1,128 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,263 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 187 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 652 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,084 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,221 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 271 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,127 1 0 887.3
2010 Q3 1,411 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,502 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 828 2 1 2415.5
2009 Q3 927 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 272 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 1,255 2 1 1593.6
2008 Q3 2,012 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 3,145 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,058 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,158 1 0 863.6
2007 Q3 973 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,468 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,014 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 874 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,390 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,351 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,140 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 872 1 0 1146.8
2005 Q3 1,335 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,439 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 478 2 0 4184.1
2004 Q4 910 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,120 3 1 2678.6
2004 Q2 1,474 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 791 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,202 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,508 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,356 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 689 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 924 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 972 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 763 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 441 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 531 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,788 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,613 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 894 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,176 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,548 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,575 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 117 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 WEST RIFLE 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.