Mining Incidents

Crutch Ranch Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Dwight Elton Rice
Borger, Hutchinson County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4105109

Crutch Ranch Pit 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 2015
41
citations
3
significant & substantial
$4,923
proposed penalties
$4,923
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
27
inspections on record
459
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: 459 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Crutch Ranch Pit 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
37 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-10.
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 12,744 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 13,492 2 0 148.2
2025 Q2 12,009 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 10,645 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 11,889 3 0 252.3
2024 Q3 12,685 1 0 78.8
2024 Q2 11,803 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 10,858 0 0 0.0
Show 36 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 12,476 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 11,853 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 11,742 1 0 85.2
2023 Q1 13,019 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 11,940 2 0 167.5
2022 Q3 12,910 1 0 77.5
2022 Q2 14,095 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 12,524 5 1 399.2
2021 Q4 12,799 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 13,211 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 11,805 2 0 169.4
2021 Q1 11,595 1 0 86.2
2020 Q4 12,289 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 13,902 1 0 71.9
2020 Q2 12,488 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 11,310 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 11,311 1 0 88.4
2019 Q3 11,905 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 10,908 5 0 458.4
2019 Q1 8,413 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 7,370 1 0 135.7
2018 Q3 8,844 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 8,386 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 7,958 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 6,786 1 0 147.4
2017 Q3 6,671 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 4,346 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 5,129 1 0 195.0
2016 Q4 6,309 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 7,264 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 7,694 1 0 130.0
2016 Q1 7,893 5 0 633.5
2015 Q4 5,180 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 4,425 1 0 226.0
2015 Q2 3,322 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 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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The full compliance file on Crutch Ranch Pit

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.