Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher #1 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by CRH PLC
Baggs, Moffat County, CO  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0504854

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2023–2026
Latest incident
Jan 2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
66
citations
18
significant & substantial
$9,520
proposed penalties
$9,520
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 2,866 2 0 697.8
2025 Q1 1,206 1 0 829.2
2024 Q3 0 0 0
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2023 Q4 1,961 1 0 509.9
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2022 Q4 2,144 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 0 0 0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2026 · 1 incident

January 28, 2026 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Oldcastle SW Group, Inc · Struck by falling object

Employee was rigging up the cone ring to remove it from the cone. It got bound up at an angle and would not move. EE reset the rigging then started to descend from cone. The cone ring did not have any pressure from the rigging. Descending from the cone onto the platform EE put EE's hand out for support, the ring fell into its resting position just 2" from bound position.

2025 · 1 incident

June 24, 2025 CO · Metal/Non-Metal dry screening plant operator, screen house operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Oldcastle SW Group, Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee went to change the cross-conveyor belt using a tool box knife to cut the old belt and pulled it towards themselves, cutting their thumb through their glove.

2023 · 1 incident

February 8, 2023 CO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
A & S Construction Co. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was helping change cutting edge on skid steer. Employee was holding bolt head with hand when other employee tightened nut with electric impact spinning nut in employee 1's hand cutting EE's finger resulting in 5 stitches.