Mining Incidents

Amrize Distel Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Amrize Ltd
Longmont, Weld County, CO  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0504476

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
12
Years on record
2000–2023
Latest incident
Feb 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
189
citations
39
significant & substantial
$59,309
proposed penalties
$58,295
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
2025 Q4 4,620 1 0 216.5
2025 Q3 730 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 670 2 1 2985.1
2024 Q4 582 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 6,773 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 6,703 2 0 298.4
2024 Q1 539 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 525 2 0 3809.5
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
February 8, 2000 CO · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Amrize West Central Inc. · Struck by powered moving object

AVAILABLE INFORMATION FROM THE SCRAPER OPERATOR AND EYE WITNESS SHOWS THAT THE EMPLOYEE MOVED BETWEEN A BACKING 633 CAT SCRAPER AND HIS PICKUP OUT OF THE OPERATORS FIELD OF VISION. HE WAS RUN OVER BY THE LEFT REAR SCRAPER TIRE RESULTING IN DEATH.

Reportable incidents

11 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2023 · 1 incident

February 17, 2023 CO · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Amrize West Central Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Belt repairs being installed. Employee was cutting a v-shape cut at edge of belt and utility knife slipped, cutting hand.

2016 · 3 incidents

October 5, 2016 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Amrize West Central Inc. · Struck by falling object

Employee was replacing a screen panel when it slipped out of left hand and landed on right pinky finger, causing a puncture to right pinky finger.

May 26, 2016 CO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Amrize West Central Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was attempting to free a screen tightening rail with a four foot bar and the rail came loose. The bar then came back and struck the employee on the left side of the face causing safety glasses to cut employee just above the eyebrow.

2015 · 1 incident

July 31, 2015 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Amrize West Central Inc. · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

Employee picked up a 140 pound log washer part and threw it causing a lower back strain.

2007 · 1 incident

March 17, 2007 CO · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Amrize West Central Inc. · Contact with hot objects or substances

Employee was in the process of building a guard, and was welding at the time, when another employee with a lit cutting torch pulled on the torch to get more slack in the hose. In the process he ran the lit torch across the arm of the employee that was welding. This caused a second degree burn on the employee's upper left forearm about two inches in diameter.

2004 · 1 incident

April 6, 2004 CO · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) MACHINERY
Amrize West Central Inc. · Flash burns (welding)

EE RECEIVED WELDER ARC BURN TO THE EYES WHILE HELPING AN EE WELD CHUTES. EE WAS USING P.P.E. BUT MAY HAVE SUSTAINED THE BURN WHILE WORKING IN THE AREA.

2003 · 1 incident

April 3, 2003 CO · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) POWERED HAULAGE
Amrize West Central Inc. · Struck against stationary object

EE WAS STANDING ON A CONVEYOR APPROXIMATELY 5' OFF OF GROUND OBSERVING THE TRANSFER POINT OF THE CONVEYOR HE WAS STANDING ON AND THE DISCHARGE END OF THE CONVEYOR DUMPING ONTO IT. HE LOST HIS FOOTING & GRABBED DRIVE PULLEY OF THE OVERHEAD CONVEYOR CUTTING HIS RIGHT RING FINGER & TWISTING HIS WRIST. THE CUT TOOK 4 STITCHES.

2002 · 1 incident

August 9, 2002 CO · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Amrize West Central Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS REMOVING A CUTTING EDGE FROM A SKID-STEER WITH AN IMPACT GUN. WHEN NUT LOOSENED HE WAS HOLDING BOLT IN WITH HIS FINGER. THE BOLT DROPPED & SPUN CUTTING HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER (9 SUTURES)

2001 · 1 incident

2000 · 1 incident

February 8, 2000 CO · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator, crane operator ALL OTHER OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESSES
Amrize West Central Inc. · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

OPERATOR OF SCRAPPER THAT RAN OVER A CO-WORKER AND KILLED HIM ON 2-8-00. OPERATOR HAD BEEN SUFFERING FROM STRESS RELATED PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS EVENT. ON 3-14 HE REPORTED A WORK RELATED ILNESS FOR STRESS.