Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher #3 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by CRH PLC
Crested Butte, Las Animas County, CO  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0504706

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2016–2025
Latest incident
Jul 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
125
citations
41
significant & substantial
$16,413
proposed penalties
$16,413
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 4,111 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 0 5 0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 2,571 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,975 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,784 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 2,850 5 2 1754.4
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2025 · 1 incident

July 31, 2025 CO · Metal/Non-Metal crusher attendant/operator, pan feeder operator/worker HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Oldcastle SW Group, Inc · Struck by falling object

While disassembling a gear box from a super stacker, it was in park postion sitting on a pile of material, went to pull it off the shaft, when it fell it struck the employees foot rather than going into the loader bucket.

2016 · 1 incident

October 5, 2016 CO · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
A & S Construction Co. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Driver had gotten out of truck WAS STANDING IN FRONT OF left front axle, when another truck approached from the rear contacting trailer and pushed parked truck forward pushing truck onto employee's foot and axle. Damage to parked unit was broken tail light. Other unit had damage to tarp arm.