Mining Incidents

DavisWetzel Group, LLC: 147 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

DavisWetzel Group, LLC · Surface
Controlled by James J Davis
O'Donnell, Dawson County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4105239

DavisWetzel Group, LLC has $72K 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 2017
147
citations
29
significant & substantial
$71,936
proposed penalties
$71,936
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
40
inspections on record
520
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: 520 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

DavisWetzel Group, LLC has $72K 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.
$72K
proposed penalties
$72K
current assessed
$72K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
141 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-04-10.
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.
19.9%
significant & substantial
4.8%
high negligence or reckless
19.9%
reasonably likely or greater
32.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 4.1% low, 91.1% moderate, 4.8% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2025-04-10
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
10
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz3
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz3
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (10)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-04-10 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 1.83 Truck Driver
2025-04-10 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 Cleanup Man
2025-04-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-04-10 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.59 Backhoe Operator
2023-07-26 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 1.63 10 0.16 Laborer, Bullgang
2023-07-26 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 2.22 10 0.22 Laborer, Bullgang
2023-02-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2023-02-10 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 2.28 10 0.23 Laborer, Bullgang
2023-02-10 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2020-09-17 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.49 Cleanup Man
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.

DavisWetzel Group, LLC 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
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 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 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 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.
Ownership history
  1. DavisWetzel Group, LLC 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 21
2025 21
2024 15
2023 22
2022 29
2021 25
2020 24
2019 20
2018 15
2017 16
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

DavisWetzel Group, LLC sits in Dawson County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 12.9% 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.
Dawson County, Texas · Population 12,311
12.9%
Mining share of county employment
$55,789
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 12,537 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 9,503 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 10,927 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 9,082 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 15,894 10 1 629.2
2025 Q1 6,522 4 2 613.3
2024 Q4 2,408 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 9,314 14 0 1503.1
Show 30 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 9,621 6 2 623.6
2024 Q1 3,202 16 1 4996.9
2023 Q4 10,590 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,698 6 1 1622.5
2023 Q2 11,649 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 11,711 5 0 426.9
2022 Q4 14,026 5 1 356.5
2022 Q3 15,812 2 1 126.5
2022 Q2 15,889 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 12,443 7 2 562.6
2021 Q4 15,442 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 12,818 11 5 858.2
2021 Q2 12,392 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 13,113 5 0 381.3
2020 Q4 13,298 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 14,086 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 15,534 22 4 1416.2
2020 Q1 11,784 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 10,237 10 4 976.8
2019 Q3 11,281 4 1 354.6
2019 Q2 8,615 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 7,340 6 0 817.4
2018 Q4 7,388 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 7,726 5 3 647.2
2018 Q2 9,736 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 6,759 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 6,288 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 5,513 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 5,550 4 0 720.7
2017 Q1 3,514 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.