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: 296 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
COPAR MILL has $9K 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.
$9K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
63 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-11-21.
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: 2005-10-19, 20 years ago
4
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg4
Show the individual readings (4)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2005-10-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Flotation/Concentrator Oper.
2005-10-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2005-10-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2005-10-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
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.
COPAR MILL recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2003.
Injury rate, 2003
ⓘ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 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.43 cases per 100 workers.
In New Mexico, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.01 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
2003 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2002 *
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
2008
4
2007
9
2006
5
2005
6
2004
10
2003
13
2002
13
2001
7
2000
8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
COPAR MILL sits in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, where the Census mining category is 1.3% 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.
Rio Arriba County, New Mexico · Population 40,165
1.3%
Mining share of county employment
$53,901
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
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2008 Q2
0
0
0
2008 Q1
3,365
0
0
0.0
2007 Q4
4,627
8
3
1729.0
2007 Q3
4,652
0
0
0.0
2007 Q2
4,680
1
0
213.7
2007 Q1
3,648
0
0
0.0
2006 Q4
2,573
5
2
1943.3
2006 Q3
2,869
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2006 Q2
2,285
1
0
437.6
2006 Q1
1,920
0
0
0.0
2005 Q4
1,920
1
0
520.8
2005 Q3
1,920
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
2,400
2
0
833.3
2005 Q1
4,600
5
2
1087.0
2004 Q4
4,600
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
4,800
3
1
625.0
2004 Q2
4,800
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
4,800
0
0
0.0
2003 Q4
4,320
2
1
463.0
2003 Q3
7,680
3
1
390.6
2003 Q2
6,981
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
6,960
12
9
1724.1
2002 Q4
8,260
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
7,961
4
1
502.4
2002 Q2
7,287
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
4,218
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
3,894
5
1
1284.0
2001 Q3
4,209
3
0
712.8
2001 Q2
3,867
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
3,326
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
3,612
4
2
1107.4
2000 Q3
4,329
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
5,216
4
3
766.9
2000 Q1
5,103
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
5 on file
1990 · 1 incident
March 29, 1990NM · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Copar Pumice Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
WHILE INSERTING PULL PIN IN LOADER DROPPED PULL PIN AND SMASH RIGHT THUMB BETWEEN PIN HOLDER AND PIN LEAD.
1989 · 2 incidents
August 25, 1989NM · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanPOWERED HAULAGE
EMPLOYEE WAS FEEDING THE PLANT WITH FRONT END LOADER WHILE WAITING FOR FEED HOPPER,TO GET ENOUGH FOR NEXT LOAD HE DISMOUNTED THE LOADER AND REACHED IN BETWEEN ROLLERS WITH HIS HAND TO REMOVE D UST.HIS AHND GOT INTO THE PINCH POINT BETWEEN ROLLER AND CONVEYOR BELT.THE BELT AND ROLLER PULLED IN HIS ARM UP TO THE ELBOW AND THE BELT SCRAPED OFF SOME SKIN ON HIS ELBOW.
EMPL WAS SHOVLEING EXCESS MATERIAL ON TO RETURN BELT DURING BREEZY CONDITIONS. DUST OR PUMICE PARTICLE GOT INTO LEFT EYE. EMPLS LEFT EYE SUSTAINED SCRATCHED CORNEA.
1988 · 1 incident
July 21, 1988NM · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDLING OF MATERIALS
WHEN DISMOUNTING FROM LOADER AS HE STEPPED FROM LAST STEP TO GROUND & TURNED LOOSE FROM HANDRAIL AS HIS HAND PASSED BY TOP STEP HIS RING CAUGHT ON SMALL METAL PROTRUSION OF TOP STEP.
1984 · 1 incident
November 1, 1984NM · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)