Mining Incidents

Cantera El Tuque Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Enrique Golderos
Ponce, Ponce County, PR  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 5400483

Cantera El Tuque has $184K in proposed MSHA penalties and $143K outstanding across 4 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 2010
161
citations
41
significant & substantial
$184,298
proposed penalties
$29,922
paid to date
16% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $154,376 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2010
81
inspections on record
611
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: 611 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Cantera El Tuque has $184K in proposed MSHA penalties and $143K outstanding across 4 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.
$184K
proposed penalties
$173K
current assessed
$30K
paid to date
$143K
outstanding
129 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-10-08.
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
2020 Q1 240 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,319 2 0 1516.3
2019 Q3 1,319 7 0 5307.1
2019 Q2 1,319 1 0 758.2
2019 Q1 1,278 6 1 4694.8
2018 Q4 1,278 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,302 9 5 6912.4
2018 Q2 1,461 5 2 3422.3
Show 31 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2018 Q1 1,390 4 1 2877.7
2017 Q4 1,286 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 0 4 1
2017 Q2 1,037 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,188 3 0 2525.3
2016 Q4 1,682 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 150 2 1 13333.3
2016 Q2 1,809 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,702 3 0 1762.6
2015 Q4 1,164 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,438 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,436 8 2 5571.0
2015 Q1 723 2 0 2766.3
2014 Q4 1,263 7 2 5542.4
2014 Q3 1,646 12 6 7290.4
2014 Q2 2,668 5 3 1874.1
2014 Q1 1,898 11 2 5795.6
2013 Q4 3,023 2 1 661.6
2013 Q3 2,458 1 0 406.8
2013 Q2 3,355 17 1 5067.1
2013 Q1 3,209 2 0 623.2
2012 Q4 2,305 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,196 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,838 2 1 1088.1
2012 Q1 2,827 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 2,109 3 0 1422.5
2011 Q3 3,120 3 1 961.5
2011 Q2 3,457 10 0 2892.7
2011 Q1 3,958 23 9 5811.0
2010 Q4 3,906 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 4,080 7 2 1715.7

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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