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Dawn Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Messer Construction Company Inc · Surface

Controlled by Jacky Messer; Johnnie Messer

Hereford, Deaf Smith County, TX · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 4104060

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2000
Latest incident: Sep 2000

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2002

citations

significant & substantial

$4,932

proposed penalties

$4,716

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	Per 1M hrs
2014 Q3	0	0
2014 Q2	0	1
2014 Q1	2,093	0	0.0
2013 Q4	82	2	24390.2
2013 Q3	42	0	0.0
2013 Q2	42	0	0.0
2013 Q1	1	0	0.0
2012 Q4	31	2	64516.1

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

2000 · 1 incident

September 29, 2000 TX · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner ELECTRICAL

Messer Construction Company Inc · Flash burns (electric)

WHILE TESTING A SWITCH IN THE MAIN CONTROL PANELTHE PANEL SHORTED OUT CAUSING A FLASH EXPLOSION BURNING EE'S HANDS. THIS PANEL WAS DEENERGIZED AS IT IS TO BE REPLACED BY AN ELECTRICIAN