Mining Incidents

Corona Pit: 4 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Dustin James Pettingill
Mountainair, Torrance County, NM  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2902506

Corona Pit has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $596 in penalties since 2024, with $151 outstanding.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
—
Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2024
4
citations
0
significant & substantial
$596
proposed penalties
$445
paid to date
75% of proposed penalties paid to date. The remaining $151 was reduced, settled, contested or is still owed.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2023
4
inspections on record
51
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: 51 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Corona Pit has $596 in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 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.
$596
proposed penalties
$596
current assessed
$445
paid to date
$151
outstanding
3 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-08-19.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
50.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Restoration Group, Inc. 2019 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 5
2025 7
2024 4
2023 6
2022 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Corona Pit sits in Torrance County, New Mexico, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Torrance County, New Mexico · Population 15,290
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$46,250
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; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. 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
2026 Q2 1,756 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 3,328 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 3,415 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,744 1 0 364.4
2025 Q2 2,497 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 4,055 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,162 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 4,355 2 0 459.2
Show 7 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 808 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,306 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 765 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,225 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,033 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 980 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,554 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.