Mining Incidents

Alta Mesa Project Metal/Non-Metal

Mestena Uranium LLC · Surface
Rachal, Brooks County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4104508

Alta Mesa Project has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2006
Latest incident
Mar 2006
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
14
citations
6
significant & substantial
$2,362
proposed penalties
$2,362
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
6
inspections on record
80
inspection hours
n/a
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: 80 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Alta Mesa Project has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
14 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2006-07-20.
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
2007 Q2 108,134 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 49,639 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 50,877 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 49,681 3 3 60.4
2006 Q2 42,163 5 3 118.6
2006 Q1 14,147 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 35,118 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 25,150 6 0 238.6
Show 2 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2005 Q2 20,397 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 8,855 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2006 · 1 incident

March 9, 2006 TX · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator OTHER
Mestena Uranium LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The accident happend on 3/9/2006 but was not reported to staff until 3/13/2006. Once we did find out about it we sent him to the doctor. The doctor said he had a lower back strain and put him on light duty for 10 days. After being on light duty 10 days he went back to doctor and was released by the doctor to full duty.

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