Mining Incidents

Cooksey Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by GMS Inc; David Shoup
Carlsbad, Eddy County, NM  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2902429

Cooksey has $5K 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 2012
41
citations
10
significant & substantial
$5,400
proposed penalties
$5,400
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
20
inspections on record
166
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: 166 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Cooksey has $5K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
41 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-06-06.
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 Q2 2,138 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,763 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,254 5 1 3987.2
2024 Q1 2,037 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 4,085 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3,105 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,675 4 0 1495.3
2022 Q3 3,102 0 0 0.0
Show 30 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q2 3,582 2 0 558.3
2022 Q1 2,566 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,733 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 4,180 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 6,591 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 3,669 7 3 1907.9
2020 Q4 3,425 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 4,092 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,592 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 346 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,306 6 0 4594.2
2019 Q2 662 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 426 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,225 2 0 1632.7
2018 Q3 3,759 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,157 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 252 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 892 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,050 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,513 3 1 1193.8
2016 Q3 3,007 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,442 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 3,591 3 0 835.4
2015 Q4 987 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 3,464 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 623 1 0 1605.1
2015 Q1 2,793 3 2 1074.1
2012 Q4 228 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 3,648 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,728 5 3 2893.5

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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