Mining Incidents

Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company, LLC: 255 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by SSR Mining Incorporated
MSHA operator ID: 0164293

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
66
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2019–2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2019
255
citations
20
significant & substantial
$73,032
proposed penalties
$69,398
paid to date
95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,634 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
38
inspections on record
3,339
inspection hours
7.6
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.
255 citations across 3,339 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$73K
proposed penalties
$73K
current assessed
$69K
paid to date
$4K
outstanding
245 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $0 in penalties contested before the Commission, $0 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-07-12.
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.
7.8%
significant & substantial
5.9%
high negligence or reckless
7.8%
reasonably likely or greater
34.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 17.6% low, 76.5% moderate, 5.9% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2025
This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
1.35
total case rate
0.45
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2026 1.83 1.37 0.000
2025 1.35 0.45 0.000
2024 1.50 1.12 0.000
2023 3.03 2.32 0.000
2022 1.29 0.21 0.000
2021 1.19 0.79 0.000
2020 1.58 1.05 0.000
2019 0.20 0.20 0.000
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
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: 2025-06-28
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
41
samples
24
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg16
  • Silver dust & soluble compounds9
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz4
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
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.
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 operator contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
WEST 2022-0135 Settlement Miller 2022 $0 → $0
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2026
4
2025
6
2024
9
2023
18
2022
7
2021
8
2020
11
2019
3

Mines on record

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Where Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company, LLC stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

MSHA's standard limits respirable silica to 50 micrograms per cubic metre, but MSHA publishes dust and quartz as separate files and never the silica figure itself. We derive it per sample, score it against the limit, and set the operator's injury rate against a benchmark built from the full MSHA operator record. With the 26-year penalty trail, contest posture, and fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.

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