Mining Incidents

Soto's Rock Metal/Non-Metal

Soto's Rock · Surface
El Paso, El Paso County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4103807

Soto's Rock has $37K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2000
Latest incident
Feb 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
144
citations
43
significant & substantial
$36,778
proposed penalties
$36,735
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $43 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
85
inspections on record
1,021
inspection hours
14.1
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.
144 citations across 1,021 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Soto's Rock has $37K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$37K
proposed penalties
$37K
current assessed
$37K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
142 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-09-16.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. 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
2025 Q4 3,032 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,024 1 0 330.7
2025 Q2 2,872 3 0 1044.6
2025 Q1 3,232 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,472 1 0 404.5
2024 Q3 2,952 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,352 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,344 4 0 1706.5
Show 94 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,608 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,080 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,716 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,912 2 0 686.8
2022 Q4 3,200 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3,448 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,264 1 0 306.4
2022 Q1 3,400 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,368 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 4,288 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,464 2 1 577.4
2021 Q1 4,056 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 4,232 4 1 945.2
2020 Q3 4,288 2 0 466.4
2020 Q2 4,014 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 4,648 1 0 215.1
2019 Q4 4,195 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 4,356 3 0 688.7
2019 Q2 3,992 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 3,432 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 4,176 5 2 1197.3
2018 Q3 3,560 4 0 1123.6
2018 Q2 3,744 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 3,720 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 3,720 3 0 806.5
2017 Q3 3,848 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 4,056 5 4 1232.7
2017 Q1 4,112 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 4,136 4 2 967.1
2016 Q3 4,158 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 4,340 3 0 691.2
2016 Q1 3,688 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 4,148 4 4 964.3
2015 Q3 4,080 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 4,088 2 0 489.2
2015 Q1 3,940 4 0 1015.2
2014 Q4 3,900 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 3,956 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,872 3 2 774.8
2014 Q1 3,658 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 3,752 2 1 533.0
2013 Q3 4,052 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 3,440 1 0 290.7
2013 Q1 3,232 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,970 2 2 673.4
2012 Q3 2,640 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 3,240 4 1 1234.6
2012 Q1 3,017 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 732 5 1 6830.6
2011 Q3 732 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 732 4 0 5464.5
2011 Q1 732 2 0 2732.2
2010 Q4 712 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 712 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 712 8 7 11236.0
2009 Q4 704 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 732 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 772 1 0 1295.3
2009 Q1 772 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 936 4 1 4273.5
2008 Q3 936 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 928 1 0 1077.6
2008 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 545 8 1 14678.9
2007 Q3 540 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 540 1 1 1851.9
2007 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 540 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 540 6 2 11111.1
2006 Q2 580 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 480 7 1 14583.3
2005 Q4 536 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 520 2 0 3846.2
2005 Q2 560 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 640 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 510 1 0 1960.8
2004 Q3 518 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 540 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 508 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 560 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 536 1 0 1865.7
2003 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 500 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 520 4 4 7692.3
2002 Q1 504 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 520 7 2 13461.5
2001 Q3 640 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 564 4 1 7092.2
2000 Q4 564 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 160 4 1 25000.0
2000 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2000 · 1 incident

February 22, 2000 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Soto's Rock · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS PRYING ROCKS LOOSE. THE ROCK GOT LOOSE ALL OF A SUDDEN, HE LOST HIS HOLD. BECAUSE HE WAS NEAR THE EDGE, HE FELL OFF 20 FEET TO GROUND LEVEL. THE EE REMOVED HIS SAFETY LANYARD.

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The full compliance file on Soto's Rock

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.