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Belzer Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Fossum Ready Mix · Surface

Controlled by Steve Fossum; Scott Fossum; Carol Fossum

Glasgow, Valley County, MT · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 2400420

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2014
Latest incident: Aug 2014

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

citations

significant & substantial

$25,089

proposed penalties

$19,735

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
2019 Q2	0	0	0
2018 Q4	0	0	0
2018 Q3	0	0	0
2018 Q2	0	0	0
2018 Q1	0	0	0
2017 Q4	0	0	0
2017 Q3	0	0	0
2017 Q2	0	0	0

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

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded

August 2, 2014 MT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman Fatality · FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS

Fossum Ready Mix · Struck by falling object

Miner was apparently adding oil to hoist of truck. Box was loaded with rock and not properly blocked. The weight of the loaded box split block and the box came down unexpectedly crushing miner between the truck frame and dump box. Although no damage was done to equipment, miner was killed.