Mining Incidents

Cooper West - Lueders Metal/Non-Metal

Cooper Stone, LLC · Surface
Controlled by Micah Flippen
Lueders, Jones County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4104926

Cooper West - Lueders has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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
59
citations
13
significant & substantial
$9,958
proposed penalties
$9,815
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $143 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
23
inspections on record
289
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: 289 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Cooper West - Lueders has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
58 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-10.
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 3,340 5 4 1497.0
2025 Q3 2,280 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,580 3 0 1162.8
2025 Q1 3,040 2 0 657.9
2024 Q4 3,080 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,230 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,270 2 0 611.6
2024 Q1 3,286 0 0 0.0
Show 34 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,256 4 0 1773.0
2023 Q3 3,552 5 1 1407.7
2023 Q2 3,246 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,120 4 1 1886.8
2022 Q4 2,176 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,418 3 0 1240.7
2022 Q2 1,228 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,878 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,814 1 0 551.3
2021 Q3 1,708 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,950 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,724 4 0 2320.2
2020 Q3 1,638 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,130 2 1 1769.9
2020 Q1 1,399 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,951 6 3 3075.3
2019 Q3 2,190 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,040 1 0 961.5
2019 Q1 1,820 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,700 3 1 1764.7
2018 Q3 1,603 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,397 3 1 2147.5
2018 Q1 1,086 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 914 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,053 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 599 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 0 0 0
2013 Q3 0 0 0
2013 Q2 0 0 0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 260 4 0 15384.6
2012 Q3 1,040 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,040 5 1 4807.7
2012 Q1 80 0 0 0.0

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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