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: 487 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
4L Ranch has $8K 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
51 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-06.
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: 2025-09-17
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
16
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg13
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (16)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-09-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2025-09-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2021-07-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2021-07-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2021-07-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2015-04-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2015-04-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.28
0.87
0.32
Laborer, Bullgang
2015-04-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.12
0.63
0.19
Washer Operator
2015-04-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2010-10-06
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2010-10-06
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Screen/Scalper Operator
2005-10-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cleanup Man
2005-10-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Gathering Arm Operator
2005-10-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.2
1.34
0.15
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-10-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Scale Man
2005-10-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cleanup Man
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.
4L Ranch recorded 8.39 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2018.
Injury rate, 2018
ⓘ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, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
8.39
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.95 and the all-US-mining average was 2.33 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.77 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
2018 *
8.39
0.00
0.000
2017 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2016 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2015 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2014 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2013 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2012 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2011 *
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
8
2025
8
2024
8
2023
8
2022
7
2021
7
2019
5
2018
10
2017
14
2016
23
2015
24
2014
29
2013
29
2012
24
2011
19
2010
19
2008
14
2007
16
2006
17
2005
19
2004
16
2003
13
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
4L Ranch sits in Colorado County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 3.2% 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.
Colorado County, Texas · Population 20,736
3.2%
Mining share of county employment
$68,554
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, 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
2026 Q2
3,135
4
3
1275.9
2026 Q1
3,130
4
0
1278.0
2025 Q4
3,135
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
4,585
2
0
436.2
2025 Q2
4,886
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
4,960
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
4,960
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
4,860
1
0
205.8
Show 72 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
4,780
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
5,140
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
5,150
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
5,080
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
4,680
3
1
641.0
2023 Q1
4,284
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
4,992
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
4,063
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
3,780
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
3,490
0
0
0.0
2021 Q4
2,880
1
0
347.2
2021 Q3
4,080
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
3,880
0
0
0.0
2019 Q1
1,548
1
0
646.0
2018 Q4
3,107
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
6,830
0
0
0.0
2018 Q2
7,287
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
6,605
4
2
605.6
2017 Q4
4,561
0
0
0.0
2017 Q3
8,923
0
0
0.0
2017 Q2
9,728
0
0
0.0
2017 Q1
13,222
0
0
0.0
2016 Q4
14,591
1
0
68.5
2016 Q3
17,166
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
14,806
1
0
67.5
2016 Q1
13,121
0
0
0.0
2015 Q4
13,214
2
0
151.4
2015 Q3
15,125
0
0
0.0
2015 Q2
14,953
3
0
200.6
2015 Q1
14,116
2
1
141.7
2014 Q4
14,581
0
0
0.0
2014 Q3
14,423
0
0
0.0
2014 Q2
17,596
2
0
113.7
2014 Q1
16,551
1
0
60.4
2013 Q4
18,732
0
0
0.0
2013 Q3
17,731
1
0
56.4
2013 Q2
20,025
0
0
0.0
2013 Q1
17,726
0
0
0.0
2012 Q4
21,298
1
0
47.0
2012 Q3
14,229
0
0
0.0
2012 Q2
14,712
1
0
68.0
2012 Q1
10,748
2
0
186.1
2011 Q4
10,033
0
0
0.0
2011 Q3
9,064
1
0
110.3
2011 Q2
11,742
0
0
0.0
2011 Q1
15,224
0
0
0.0
2010 Q4
13,843
2
0
144.5
2010 Q3
10,549
0
0
0.0
2010 Q2
8,377
0
0
0.0
2008 Q4
7,615
0
0
0.0
2008 Q3
8,415
0
0
0.0
2008 Q2
9,503
0
0
0.0
2008 Q1
9,640
1
0
103.7
2007 Q4
10,493
0
0
0.0
2007 Q3
11,017
0
0
0.0
2007 Q2
10,965
1
0
91.2
2007 Q1
11,732
0
0
0.0
2006 Q4
10,140
0
0
0.0
2006 Q3
12,960
0
0
0.0
2006 Q2
13,315
0
0
0.0
2006 Q1
12,801
0
0
0.0
2005 Q4
12,118
0
0
0.0
2005 Q3
15,547
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
13,927
1
1
71.8
2005 Q1
12,498
0
0
0.0
2004 Q4
14,108
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
11,095
0
0
0.0
2004 Q2
10,804
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
9,678
0
0
0.0
2003 Q4
10,555
1
0
94.7
2003 Q3
7,997
1
1
125.0
2003 Q2
4,728
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
6 on file
2018 · 1 incident
February 26, 2018TX · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
EEs were performing a full log washer paddle change, all were properly LOTO in the MCC. Logs were secured with a come along to prevent the weight of new paddles to spin the logs. The come along slipped, EE became pinned between paddles and the wall of the log washer, EE was freed quickly. The accident caused abdominal contusions, EE was prescribed pain medication and light duty.
Employee sustains a compression laceration to his right hand ring finger while setting 6" core barrel in rack. Employee was wearing hi impact work gloves at the time of the incident.
2008 · 2 incidents
September 26, 2008TX · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Employee was installing a sheave on C-2 conveyor head section. While holding the sheave the sheave slipped off the shaft and the momentum carried his hand down where it impacted the keystock cutting the second digit of his right hand, resulting in five stitches.
An outside hauler, EE, was brushing off his truck after receiving his ticket, tripped on the gravel road and fell. He impacted his knee and face on the gravel road. His eye glasses cut his nose and he bruised his knee. He was taken to a clinic where he received stitches for his nose.