Mining Incidents

Portable Crushing Plant #3 Metal/Non-Metal

Walsenburg, Las Animas County, CO  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2902223

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2005–2008
Latest incident
Jan 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
57
citations
16
significant & substantial
$7,586
proposed penalties
$7,586
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
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 174 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 3,077 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 784 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q2 0 0 0
2012 Q1 350 10 4 28571.4
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

2008 · 1 incident

January 22, 2008 CO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Southway Construction Company Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Fixing tear in conveyor belt left hand got caught - smashing it. Employee has been treated at Union County General Hospital.

2005 · 1 incident

April 5, 2005 CO · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Southway Construction Company Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

Cutting a piece of metal from the jaw crusher & it fell onto the chute & slid down the chute pinning the employee's rt. hand under the piece of hot metal. It burned the back of his rt. hand. EE could be away from work for 3 weeks.