Elk Creek Surface Facilities Coal

Oxbow Mining, LLC · Facility

Controlled by Oxbow Carbon LLC

Somerset, Gunnison County, CO · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 0500294

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Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

citations

significant & substantial

$4,593

proposed penalties

$4,593

paid to date

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Quarterly safety rates

Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA

Quarter	Hours worked	Citations	S&S	Per 1M hrs
2001 Q2	21,268	0	0	0.0
2001 Q1	21,362	13	4	608.6
2000 Q4	19,341	9	2	465.3
2000 Q3	18,817	20	10	1062.9
2000 Q2	12,974	0	0	0.0
2000 Q1	13,185	2	2	151.7

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

4 on file

October 26, 2000 CO · Coal scalper-screen operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Oxbow Mining, LLC · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

ROLLING BELTS ON PULLEY OF CRUSHER HE CAUGHT HISFINGER IN PULLEY.

August 31, 2000 CO · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer NONPOWERED HAULAGE

Oxbow Mining, LLC · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

WHILE PULLING ON A DOLLY LOADED WITH A 55-GALLON DRUM OF ANTIFREEZE, EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCED LOWER BACK PAIN.

July 24, 2000 CO · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Oxbow Mining, LLC · Struck by rolling or sliding object

AS HE WAS LOADING LOOSE TIMBER ONTO LOADER, A TIMBER ROLLED OFF THE PILE AND HIT HIS LEFT ELBOW.

April 3, 2000 CO · Coal miner, nec HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Oxbow Mining, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

REPORTED LOWER BACK HURTS WHILE SHOVELING. DIDN'T MISS WORK UNTIL 5-1-00. NO MEDICAL TREATMENT AT THIS TIME.