Vista Rock Pickers Quarry has had no fatalities among 1 reportable incident since 2010. MSHA has proposed $47K in penalties since 2001, with $47K outstanding.
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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: 451 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Vista Rock Pickers Quarry has $47K in proposed MSHA penalties and $47K 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.
$47K
proposed penalties
$47K
current assessed
$0
paid to date
$47K
outstanding
60 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-09-29.
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 controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2010
3
2009
1
2006
4
2003
3
2002
3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.
Vista Rock Pickers Quarry sits in El Paso County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.8% 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.
El Paso County, Texas · Population 866,275
0.8%
Mining share of county employment
$58,859
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
2010 Q3
81
21
15
259259.3
2010 Q2
1
0
0
0.0
2009 Q3
0
1
0
2009 Q2
1
0
0
0.0
2006 Q3
1,441
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
1,446
1
1
691.6
2003 Q2
1,448
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
1,440
7
1
4861.1
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2002 Q4
1,440
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
1,440
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
1,440
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
1,440
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2010 · 1 incident
September 24, 2010TX · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorPOWERED HAULAGE
On September 24 2010 a serious accident occurred at 10:15 a.m. at my mine when employee lost control of a front end loader, causing it to rollover. I am not aware of how it happened because I was not there at the time because I was working at another mine. He was injured severely and was hospitalized. The loader rolled over and came to a rest on its top.