Mining Incidents

Circle Dot Metal/Non-Metal

B&G Electric · Surface
Controlled by Matthew S Hinton
Spearman, Hemphill County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4105202

Circle Dot has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2016
9
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,172
proposed penalties
$1,172
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
16
inspections on record
184
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: 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.

Circle Dot has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
9 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-03.
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
2025 Q4 1,037 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,292 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,026 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,436 1 0 696.4
2024 Q4 1,571 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,262 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,293 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,684 0 0 0.0
Show 29 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,169 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,570 1 0 636.9
2023 Q2 1,562 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,417 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,486 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,137 1 0 879.5
2022 Q2 1,692 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,774 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,224 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 900 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,116 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,842 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,638 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,139 2 0 1755.9
2020 Q2 995 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,062 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,510 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,141 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,739 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,101 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,117 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,456 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 949 1 0 1053.7
2017 Q4 320 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 940 1 0 1063.8
2017 Q2 1,363 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 838 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 940 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,095 1 0 913.2

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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