Mining Incidents

Tampico Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Wingate, Mckinley County, NM  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2902076

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2021
Latest incident
Apr 2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
99
citations
27
significant & substantial
$16,365
proposed penalties
$16,365
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 902 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 847 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,860 17 4 9139.8
2025 Q1 1,242 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,910 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,861 2 1 1074.7
2024 Q2 1,432 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 299 0 0 0.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2021 · 1 incident

April 6, 2021 NM · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman OTHER
Vernon Hamilton Construction Company · Fall onto or against objects

The wind was blowing extremely hard with large gusts. The contractor was on-site working doing electrical work. The contractor was standing outside of a truck and the wind blew the open truck door into the contractor, causing contractor to lose balance. Contractor fell backward and hit head on the conveyor that was behind the contractor.