Mining Incidents

Portable Crushing Plant #6 Metal/Non-Metal

Alamosa, Kiowa County, CO  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2902222

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2003–2004
Latest incident
May 2004
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
209
citations
70
significant & substantial
$87,075
proposed penalties
$65,380
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 137 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 970 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 942 10 3 10615.7
2018 Q2 4,479 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 4,979 18 7 3615.2
2017 Q3 4,323 23 12 5320.4
2017 Q2 5,601 8 3 1428.3
2017 Q1 4,041 1 0 247.5
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2004 · 1 incident

2003 · 3 incidents

June 14, 2003 CO · Metal/Non-Metal miner, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Southway Construction Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS HELPING CO-WORKER PUT ON A PATCH ON THE PRIMARY CRUSHER. THEY GOT READY TO MOVE THE BELT SO AS TO GET TO THE OUTER CLIPS. CO-WORKER TOLDEE AND OTHER EE'S TO WATCH OUT HE WAS GOING TO BUMP THE CONVEYOR. EE THOUGHT HE SAID TO PULL THE BELT BY HAND. WHEN CO-WORKER HIT THE BUTTON, EE GRABBED THE BELT AND THE BELT BROKE HIS RT. FINGER AND CUT HIS OTHER FINGER.

March 24, 2003 CO · Metal/Non-Metal NO VALUE FOUND
Southway Construction Company Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS SHOVELING UNDER THE JCI SCREEN HE SAID HEHIT THE BELT WITH THE SHOVEL & THE RETURN ROLLERGOT THE SHOVEL, SO HE TRIED TO GRAB THE SHOVEL &GOT HIS HAND CAUGHT IN THE RET ROLLER & PUT LEFT ARM UP AGAINST THE BELT TO PULL HIS HAND OUT, & GOT BELT BURNS ON LEFT HAND & ARM