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Bernardo's Pit #2: 104 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

JB Stone · Surface
Controlled by Bernardo Espinoza
Jarrell, Williamson County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4105134

Bernardo's Pit #2 has $81K 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
2022
Latest incident
Mar 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
104
citations
35
significant & substantial
$80,875
proposed penalties
$80,875
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See JB Stone's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
34
inspections on record
420
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: 420 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘ A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2023-04-25.
On record since 2023.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Bernardo's Pit #2 has $81K 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.
$81K
proposed penalties
$81K
current assessed
$81K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
101 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-25.
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.
34.0%
significant & substantial
16.5%
high negligence or reckless
34.0%
reasonably likely or greater
29.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 10.7% low, 72.8% moderate, 16.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2025-06-17
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz3
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (7)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-06-17 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.5 Cutting Mach Operator
2025-06-17 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Cutting Mach Operator
2025-06-17 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.4 Cutting Mach Operator
2017-11-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.6 2.61 0.23 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2017-11-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 1.74 0.09 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2017-11-29 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.34 10 0.03 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2017-11-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.29 1.33 0.22 Stone Polisher/Cutter
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.

Bernardo's Pit #2 recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ 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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.17 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
2025 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 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.
Ownership history
  1. JB Stone 2015 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 38
2025 52
2024 39
2023 44
2022 31
2021 25
2020 26
2019 29
2018 29
2017 19
2016 3
2015 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Bernardo's Pit #2 sits in Williamson County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Williamson County, Texas · Population 643,889
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$108,309
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 27,465 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 27,465 1 0 36.4
2025 Q4 27,372 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 28,271 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 21,696 2 0 92.2
2025 Q1 17,112 4 1 233.8
2024 Q4 19,375 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 4,610 6 2 1301.5
Show 37 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 18,711 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 16,384 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 17,609 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 18,025 1 0 55.5
2023 Q2 24,873 9 5 361.8
2023 Q1 23,798 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 21,493 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 20,290 8 4 394.3
2022 Q2 19,885 7 2 352.0
2022 Q1 16,949 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 19,211 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 14,599 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 14,223 3 2 210.9
2021 Q1 11,309 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 14,774 2 2 135.4
2020 Q3 15,973 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 17,190 2 1 116.3
2020 Q1 15,149 2 0 132.0
2019 Q4 13,196 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 12,723 8 1 628.8
2019 Q2 17,959 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 17,819 7 3 392.8
2018 Q4 14,763 1 0 67.7
2018 Q3 19,252 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 11,835 6 0 507.0
2018 Q1 8,513 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 11,456 6 0 523.7
2017 Q3 17,523 8 5 456.5
2017 Q2 806 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,614 13 2 4973.2
2016 Q4 1,410 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,906 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,332 3 2 2252.3
2016 Q1 1,165 2 2 1716.7
2015 Q4 2,365 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 171 1 0 5848.0
2015 Q2 545 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2022 · 1 incident

March 30, 2022 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
JB Stone · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE a Driver Picking up Material for Pro Wheels Trucking Slipped and fell and broke EE's ankle. It was raining and muddy outside. EE got out of surgery last week and has to stay in area for about 2 weeks and won't be going back to work for about 2 Months. This driver is not employed by Jb Stone.