Mining Incidents

Casados Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Los Ojos, Rio Arriba County, NM  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2902204

Casados Pit has $36K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 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 2000
112
citations
36
significant & substantial
$35,579
proposed penalties
$17,467
paid to date
49% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $18,112 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
46
inspections on record
541
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: 541 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Casados Pit has $36K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 5 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.
$36K
proposed penalties
$17K
current assessed
$17K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
111 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2021-08-24.
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
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q3 0 0 0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q3 383 1 0 2611.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 20 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 119 1 0 8403.4
Show 74 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 251 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 0 1 0
2019 Q2 32 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 403 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 741 7 1 9446.7
2018 Q2 150 8 1 53333.3
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 317 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,541 4 1 2595.7
2017 Q2 116 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 0 0 0
2016 Q3 468 7 1 14957.3
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 80 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 515 7 1 13592.2
2015 Q2 260 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 428 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,622 3 2 1144.2
2014 Q2 1,369 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 150 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 604 6 3 9933.8
2013 Q2 320 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 1,140 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,236 6 1 4854.4
2012 Q2 80 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 3,368 5 1 1484.6
2010 Q2 1,797 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 2,630 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 2,846 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,057 4 2 3784.3
2008 Q4 1,450 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,593 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,919 3 1 1563.3
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 427 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 2,763 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,411 1 0 708.7
2007 Q1 1,083 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,789 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 2,696 3 1 1112.8
2006 Q2 2,042 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,595 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 2,550 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 9,343 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 5,493 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 880 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 6,210 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 5,810 1 1 172.1
2004 Q2 3,918 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,040 9 1 8653.8
2003 Q4 4,007 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 5,561 8 2 1438.6
2003 Q2 2,446 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,040 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 6,580 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 8,408 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 5,494 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 2,664 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 7,242 1 0 138.1
2001 Q3 8,374 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 2,870 2 1 696.9
2001 Q1 960 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 2,881 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 4,204 24 15 5708.8

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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The full compliance file on Casados Pit

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.