Mining Incidents

Buffalo Materials Inc Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by LeRoy Soliz
Laredo, Webb County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4105272

Buffalo Materials Inc has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $17K outstanding across 0 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 2017
71
citations
11
significant & substantial
$17,439
proposed penalties
$0
paid to date
0% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $17,439 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
24
inspections on record
224
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: 224 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Buffalo Materials Inc has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $17K 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.
$17K
proposed penalties
$17K
current assessed
$0
paid to date
$17K
outstanding
60 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-06-23.
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
2022 Q1 732 1 0 1366.1
2021 Q4 718 8 0 11142.1
2021 Q3 698 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 723 5 0 6915.6
2021 Q1 784 4 0 5102.0
2020 Q4 714 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 706 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 695 2 0 2877.7
Show 12 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2020 Q1 875 2 0 2285.7
2019 Q4 540 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 652 4 0 6135.0
2019 Q2 802 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 722 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 194 3 0 15463.9
2018 Q3 228 5 3 21929.8
2018 Q2 340 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,782 8 1 4489.3
2017 Q4 1,898 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,022 8 1 3956.5
2017 Q2 1,958 20 6 10214.5

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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