Mining Incidents

Bluffton Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Llano, Llano County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4104806

Bluffton Quarry has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2011
39
citations
8
significant & substantial
$4,773
proposed penalties
$3,032
paid to date
64% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,741 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2010
31
inspections on record
282
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: 282 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Bluffton Quarry has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 3 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
38 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-11.
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
2025 Q4 2,283 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,635 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,342 3 0 2235.5
2025 Q1 1,520 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,747 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,052 3 0 1462.0
2024 Q2 2,322 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,858 0 0 0.0
Show 57 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,666 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,165 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,132 2 0 938.1
2023 Q1 2,044 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,625 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,697 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,258 2 1 885.7
2022 Q1 2,622 2 0 762.8
2021 Q4 2,790 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,111 4 1 1894.8
2021 Q2 2,087 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,441 3 0 2081.9
2020 Q4 1,603 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,459 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,880 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,785 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,570 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,612 2 0 1240.7
2019 Q2 1,281 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,248 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 732 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,100 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,276 3 2 2351.1
2018 Q1 1,257 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,429 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,870 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 486 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 187 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,328 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,447 1 0 691.1
2016 Q2 1,646 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,163 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,831 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,370 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,788 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,500 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 180 2 0 11111.1
2014 Q3 822 1 0 1216.5
2014 Q2 647 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 182 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 393 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 218 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 145 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 396 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 731 2 1 2736.0
2012 Q3 900 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 319 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 529 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 216 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 351 1 0 2849.0
2011 Q2 1,060 6 3 5660.4
2011 Q1 846 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 818 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,455 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 450 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 210 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 60 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.

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