Cinder Mountain Mine has $207K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2025
Latest incident
Jan 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
305
citations
117
significant & substantial
$207,403
proposed penalties
$203,955
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,448 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.
305 citations across 1,460 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘA Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
2
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2016-11-09.
On record since 2016.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
Cinder Mountain Mine has $207K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K 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.
$207K
proposed penalties
$207K
current assessed
$204K
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
270 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-03.
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.
Health sampling
ⓘA sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.
Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘMany samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2024-05-01
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
19
samples
6
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg8
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz4
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (19)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2024-05-01
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.23
10
0.02
Laborer, Bullgang
2024-05-01
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.25
10
0.03
Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-06-15
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.62
1.67
0.37
Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-06-15
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.48
Laborer, Bullgang
2021-07-28
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.25
Laborer, Bullgang
2021-07-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2021-07-28
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.23
Laborer, Bullgang
2019-06-05
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.17
Crusher Oper/Worker
2019-06-05
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2017-04-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2017-04-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2017-04-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2010-06-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2010-06-16
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
0.64
0.23
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-07-13
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.15
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-07-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2001-04-25
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.35
2.25
0.16
Oiler, Greaser
2001-04-25
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2001-04-25
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.13
10
0.01
Crusher Oper/Worker
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Cinder Mountain Mine recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2023.
Injury rate, 2023
ⓘ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 1.78 and the all-US-mining average was 2.10 cases per 100 workers.
In New Mexico, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.00 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.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2018 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2017 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
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
2026
18
2025
17
2024
15
2023
18
2022
15
2021
13
2020
13
2019
10
2018
11
2017
10
2016
8
2015
8
2014
6
2013
5
2012
6
2011
8
2010
5
2009
6
2008
4
2007
3
2006
3
2005
3
2004
2
2003
3
2002
1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Cinder Mountain Mine sits in Union County, New Mexico, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Union County, New Mexico · Population 4,039
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$45,319
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
On 1/26/25, EE & 2 co-workers were at the worksite to install a conveyor belt. The conveyor belt was lifted from the back end to be suspended aprox. 20 ft in the air & the front was on the ground. EE walked up the conveyor belt while it was suspended to take some measurements. EE lost balance & fell around aprox. 10:00 AM.
On 1/26/25, 3 employees were at the worksite to install a conveyor belt. The conveyor belt was lifted from the back end to be suspended approx. 20 ft in the air and the front was on the ground. EE walked up the conveyor belt while it was suspended to take some measurements. EE lost EE's balance and fell around approx. 10:00 am.