citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘThis rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 134 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
1211 Smithville has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
ⓘDifferences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
6 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-23.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘShares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘA sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.
Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘMany samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2025-10-16
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
6
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg5
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (6)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-10-16
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.16
0.97
0.16
Laborer, Bullgang
2025-10-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2023-01-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2023-01-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2023-01-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2023-01-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
1211 Smithville recorded 3.59 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000 and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year. Employment reports reach back to 1983, but those earlier years come from MSHA's archived file format and are not used in rates.
3.59
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.98 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.17 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2025 *
3.59
0.00
0.000
2024 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
23
2025
23
2024
19
2023
16
2022
9
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.
1211 Smithville sits in Bastrop County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.7% of county employment.
Local economic context
ⓘCounty figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Bastrop County, Texas · Population 102,370
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$82,730
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
ⓘCitations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2026 Q2
12,595
1
0
79.4
2026 Q1
14,149
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
13,814
1
0
72.4
2025 Q3
13,396
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
14,864
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
13,586
1
0
73.6
2024 Q4
11,825
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
12,472
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
9,446
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
7,685
2
0
260.2
2023 Q4
6,708
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
6,786
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
5,664
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
5,555
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
3,181
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
1,557
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
992
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
3 on file
2026 · 1 incident
September 3, 2026TX · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Employee was attempting to puncture holes in the top of a water bottle using scissors so they could spray water into the area where the coffee filter is located to clean the inside of the machine. While performing this task, their hand slipped, causing the scissors to cut the top of their thumb
2025 · 1 incident
February 28, 2025TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Employee was underneath the primary shaker area when the chute door was left open causing large rock to bounce out. In the process of this action employee was stuck back of the head causing a small laceration.
2022 · 1 incident
August 4, 2022TX · Metal/Non-Metalminer, prospector, necMACHINERY