Mining Incidents

Dawn Pit Metal/Non-Metal

DC Caliche LLC · Surface
Dawn, Deaf Smith County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4105434

Dawn Pit has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $980 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 2019
9
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,347
proposed penalties
$367
paid to date
27% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $980 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
6
inspections on record
70
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: 70 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Dawn Pit has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $980 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$367
paid to date
$980
outstanding
9 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2021-08-11.
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
2020 Q2 3,616 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 3,701 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 4,210 2 0 475.1
2019 Q3 3,335 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,084 1 0 922.5

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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