Mining Incidents

Yevoli Cobblestone Pit: 53 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Yevoli Cobblestone Inc · Surface
Controlled by Mark V Yevoli
Florence, Fremont County, CO  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0504878

Yevoli Cobblestone Pit has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 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 2014
53
citations
11
significant & substantial
$8,042
proposed penalties
$7,577
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $465 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
28
inspections on record
362
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: 362 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Yevoli Cobblestone Pit has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
53 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
Of $4K in penalties contested before the Commission, $3K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-10.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
20.8%
significant & substantial
37.7%
high negligence or reckless
20.8%
reasonably likely or greater
39.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 9.4% low, 52.8% moderate, 37.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
24 citations taken to the federal commission · 45% of citations on record
  • Settled 22 · 92%
  • Stood as issued 2 · 8%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 6 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
13%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$4K proposed, $3K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2023-11-28.
Contested penalties
A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
WEST 2015-0412 Settlement Lesnick 2015 $2K → $1K
WEST 2019-0122 Settlement Paez 2019 $836 → $836
WEST 2023-0262 Settlement Manning 2023 $715 → $715
WEST 2024-0065 Default 2024 $286 → $286
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2023-03-21, 3 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
3
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2023-03-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.86 0.17 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-02-22 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-12-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Beedle Quarry 2007 to 2009
  2. Yevoli Cobblestone Inc 2009 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
2021 1
2020 1
2019 2
2018 2
2017 1
2016 1
2015 1
2014 2
2007 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Yevoli Cobblestone Pit sits in Fremont County, Colorado, where the Census mining category is 0.6% 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.
Fremont County, Colorado · Population 49,394
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$61,027
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
2026 Q2 480 1 0 2083.3
2025 Q4 756 4 1 5291.0
2025 Q3 825 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,049 1 0 953.3
2025 Q1 958 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 504 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 777 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 573 0 0 0.0
Show 39 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q1 260 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 949 2 0 2107.5
2023 Q3 197 2 0 10152.3
2023 Q2 616 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 515 6 0 11650.5
2022 Q4 612 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 533 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 794 1 0 1259.4
2022 Q1 581 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 545 1 0 1834.9
2021 Q3 472 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 425 2 1 4705.9
2021 Q1 337 5 0 14836.8
2020 Q4 458 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 505 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 508 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 596 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 670 8 3 11940.3
2019 Q3 596 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 406 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 284 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 201 7 1 34825.9
2018 Q3 484 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 739 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 534 1 0 1872.7
2017 Q4 336 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 230 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 400 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 472 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 552 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 512 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 497 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 336 2 0 5952.4
2015 Q3 530 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 423 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 237 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 525 10 5 19047.6
2007 Q4 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.