BOERNER PITS & PLANT has $18K in proposed MSHA penalties and $60 outstanding across 11 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
1984–2002
Latest incident
Feb 2002
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
70
citations
30
significant & substantial
$17,965
proposed penalties
$9,288
paid to date
52% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $8,677 gap.
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: 184 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
BOERNER PITS & PLANT has $18K in proposed MSHA penalties and $60 outstanding across 11 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.
$18K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$60
outstanding
68 assessments are final orders; 11 contested dockets.
Of $18K in penalties contested before the Commission, $9K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-02-03.
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.
When citations were contested
ⓘContesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
9citations taken to the federal commission · 13% of citations on record
Settled
7 · 78%
Vacated or withdrawn
1 · 11%
Still open
1 · 11%
80%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘCounts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 5 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
59%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$4K proposed, $2K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2005-02-24.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
BOERNER PITS & PLANT recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2001.
Injury rate, 2001
ⓘ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 4.48 and the all-US-mining average was 5.26 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.55 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.
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
2004
2
2003
7
2002
9
2001
7
2000
6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
BOERNER PITS & PLANT sits in Gillespie County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.5% 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.
Gillespie County, Texas · Population 27,202
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$67,799
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
EE WAS WALKING ALONG AND STUMBLED OVER A COME ALONG FALLING TO THE GROUND. HE WENT TO THE DR AND X RAY SHOWED HE HAD BROKEN HIS LEFT ARM ABOVE THE WRIST. HE WAS ISSUED A SOFT CASE AND RETURNED TO WORK. HE WORE THE CAST FOR TWO WEEKS BUT DIDNT MISS WORK.
AN EE WAS HELPING TO REPAIR A BROKEN CABLE ON THE DRAGLINE. HE WAS DRIVING A WEDGE THROUGH THE CABLE WHEN A PIECE OF METAL FLEW FROM THE HAMMER OR WEDGE AND INTO HIS EYE. HE WAS NOT WEARING SA FETY GLASSES. SURGERY WAS REQUIRED ON HIS EYE. THE MINE OPERATOR MAKES AVAILABLE SAFETY GLASSES TO ALL EES.
1984 · 1 incident
April 30, 1984TX · Metal/Non-Metalcrane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, riggerMACHINERY
I.NAME & I.NAME WERE CHANGING SCREENS ON CRUSHER PLANT WHILE ANOTHER EE WAS WELDING ON CRUSHER PLANT NEAR BY. FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON I.NAME LOOKED AT MAN WELDING ON CRUSHER & BURNED BOTH EYE S. I.NAME DID NOT REALIZE THAT HIS EYES HAD BEEN BURNED UNTIL LATE THAT EVENING.