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Portable Crushing Plant #5 Metal/Non-Metal

Southway Construction Co. Inc. · Surface

Controlled by Estate of Henry T. Southway Jr.

Cripple Creek, Adams County, CO · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 0504110

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2001
Latest incident: Apr 2001

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

citations

significant & substantial

$69,294

proposed penalties

$48,862

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
2014 Q4	0	2	0
2014 Q3	768	0	0	0.0
2014 Q2	493	10	8	20284.0
2014 Q1	0	6	4
2013 Q4	41	0	0	0.0
2013 Q2	1,814	0	0	0.0
2012 Q4	277	0	0	0.0
2011 Q3	2,065	0	0	0.0

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

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded

April 25, 2001 CO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE

Southway Construction Co. Inc. · Struck by falling object

THE VICTIM, A LOADER OPERATOR, WAS CLEANING MATERIAL FROM A STACKER CONVEYOR WHEN HE ACCIDENTALLY STRUCK ONE OF THE LEG SUPPORTS, KNOCKING THE CONVEYOR OVER. A SECOND LOADER OPERATOR WAS SUMMONED TO LIFT & RESET THE CONVEYOR. THE RIGGING FAILED AND THE CONVEYOR FELL, STRIKING THE VICTIM AS HE WALKED UNDER THE RAISED CONVEYOR