Corpus Processing Facility has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $32 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
2017–2024
Latest incident
Dec 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2016
35
citations
3
significant & substantial
$4,469
proposed penalties
$4,437
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $32 gap.
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: 343 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Corpus Processing Facility has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $32 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$32
outstanding
34 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $236 in penalties contested before the Commission, $236 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-30.
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.
When citations were contested
ⓘContesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
2citations taken to the federal commission · 6% of citations on record
Settled
2 · 100%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$236 proposed, $236 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2018-05-06.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
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: 2025-07-22
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
10
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg8
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (10)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-07-22
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2025-07-22
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2021-04-22
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Building Repair/Maint.
2021-04-22
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Hammer Mill Operator
2021-04-22
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Building Repair/Maint.
2021-04-22
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Loader
2016-04-13
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.13
Mechanic
2016-04-13
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1.21
2.84
0.43
Front-end Loader Operator
2016-04-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2016-04-13
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Flotation/Concentrator Oper.
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.
Corpus Processing Facility recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ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
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.17 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
2025 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2024 *
4.32
0.00
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
4.53
4.53
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
6.26
6.26
0.000
2019 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2018 *
4.92
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
2026
23
2025
22
2024
21
2023
22
2022
22
2021
18
2020
15
2019
18
2018
18
2017
16
2016
9
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Corpus Processing Facility sits in Nueces County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 1.5% 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.
Nueces County, Texas · Population 352,829
1.5%
Mining share of county employment
$66,021
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
2026 Q2
12,435
1
0
80.4
2026 Q1
12,377
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
13,188
1
0
75.8
2025 Q3
11,939
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
11,677
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
11,457
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
11,884
1
0
84.1
2024 Q3
11,875
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
10,732
2
0
186.4
2024 Q1
11,770
0
0
0.0
2023 Q4
12,308
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
12,148
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
12,301
2
0
162.6
2023 Q1
12,242
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
10,673
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
11,317
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
10,541
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
11,578
1
0
86.4
2021 Q4
10,019
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
9,724
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
8,448
1
0
118.4
2021 Q1
7,495
0
0
0.0
2020 Q4
6,386
1
0
156.6
2020 Q3
7,437
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
7,127
3
0
420.9
2020 Q1
11,005
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
9,877
0
0
0.0
2019 Q3
10,714
1
0
93.3
2019 Q2
10,252
0
0
0.0
2019 Q1
10,200
0
0
0.0
2018 Q4
11,304
1
0
88.5
2018 Q3
10,459
0
0
0.0
2018 Q2
9,490
2
0
210.7
2018 Q1
9,369
0
0
0.0
2017 Q4
9,635
2
0
207.6
2017 Q3
9,341
0
0
0.0
2017 Q2
7,980
1
1
125.3
2017 Q1
6,850
0
0
0.0
2016 Q4
5,252
3
0
571.2
2016 Q3
4,379
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
4,273
3
0
702.1
2016 Q1
4,622
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
5 on file
2024 · 1 incident
December 12, 2024TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techMACHINERY
Employee cut EE's fingers while changing the blades on the 950 Cat front end loader. EE was holding the plow bolt head with EE's right hand while using an impact with EE's left to loosen the nut. Once the impact engaged the bolt dropped down and spun cutting the 2 middle fingers.
2022 · 1 incident
May 12, 2022TX · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EE was throwing trash in dumpster when EE slipped on a wet area and fell, fracturing the right fibula.
2020 · 1 incident
January 7, 2020TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
While replacing the skirting on the bottom of the crude feed south blending hopper a rock fell from the grating above approx 11 feet and struck the employee on the head.
2018 · 1 incident
March 27, 2018TX · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorMACHINERY
Using overhead hoist with chain and hook, a strap was used to grab hold of the plow body attached to the hook. The hook from the overhead hoist got caught onto an I-Beam which caused tension to build up on the chain lifting up Plow body which then slipped off the I-beam and caused the corner of the Plow Body to strike the employee on lower lip and bottom jaw.