Mining Incidents

Barstow Sand and Gravel Pit: 15 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Barstow, Ward County, TX  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4105041

Barstow Sand and Gravel Pit has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $1K in penalties since 2014.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
—
Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2014
15
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,076
proposed penalties
$1,076
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date. The remaining $0 was reduced, settled, contested or is still owed.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
13
inspections on record
75
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: 75 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Barstow Sand and Gravel Pit has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
8 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-12-20.
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.
13.3%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
13.3%
reasonably likely or greater
33.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Lujan Farms Barstow Sand & Gravel 2013 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2025 1
2024 1
2023 1
2022 2
2021 2
2016 3
2015 3
2014 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Barstow Sand and Gravel Pit sits in Ward County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 14.5% 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.
Ward County, Texas · Population 11,255
14.5%
Mining share of county employment
$71,719
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
2025 Q1 60 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 60 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 65 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 55 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 55 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 50 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 50 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 20 0 0 0.0
Show 21 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q1 50 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 80 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 50 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 100 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 300 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 50 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 50 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 50 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 50 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,246 1 0 802.6
2016 Q3 1,241 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 992 2 0 2016.1
2016 Q1 1,202 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,107 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,323 2 1 1511.7
2015 Q2 1,177 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,329 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,967 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,571 3 1 1166.9
2014 Q2 1,267 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 974 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.