Employee was cleaning the right side windows on the outside of a Komatsu WA500 front end loader, when they fell from the top of the loader and landed on the ground next to the loader.
Portable Crusher #9 Metal/Non-Metal
Oldcastle SW Group, Inc
· Surface
Controlled by
CRH PLC
Canon City,
Fremont County,
CO
·
Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0505163
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 2025
- Latest incident
- Aug 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2023
13
citations
4
significant & substantial
$11,451
proposed penalties
$11,451
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2025 Q2 | 2,599 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q1 | 1,333 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q4 | 2,354 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q3 | 1,758 | 2 | 0 | 1137.7 |
| 2024 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2023 Q4 | 3,068 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q3 | 5,055 | 4 | 1 | 791.3 |
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 file2025 · 2 incidents
August 14, 2025
CO · Metal/Non-Metal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Oldcastle SW Group, Inc · Fall from machine
July 9, 2025
CO · Metal/Non-Metal
bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer
HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Oldcastle SW Group, Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Conveyor belt had come to a stop, due to being overloaded with material. LOTO was performed, guarding was removed on the wing pulley. Employee used a shovel to remove material, and then they tried to scrape the rest of the material off pulley with right hand. It was at that time the weight conveyor to move backwards, causing the arm to be caught in between the belt arm, and pulley.