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: 78 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
E & A BOWIE PLANT has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
15 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $3K in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2002-08-15.
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.
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.
E & A BOWIE PLANT recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2001.
Injury rate, 2001
ⓘ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 4.48 and the all-US-mining average was 5.26 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.55 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.
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
2003
0
2002
3
2001
10
2000
8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
E & A BOWIE PLANT sits in Montague County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 6.7% 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.
Montague County, Texas · Population 20,599
6.7%
Mining share of county employment
$62,818
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
2003 Q1
0
0
0
2002 Q4
32
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
520
3
0
5769.2
2002 Q2
775
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
2,186
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
5,534
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
5,775
5
0
865.8
2001 Q2
6,915
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2001 Q1
5,615
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
3,852
1
0
259.6
2000 Q3
4,331
6
2
1385.4
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file
2000 · 2 incidents
October 19, 2000TX · Metal/Non-MetalmasonOCCUPATIONAL SKIN DISEASES
E & A Materials Inc · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances
THE EE WAS ASSISTING IN PLACING CONCRETE FRO A PLANT EXPANSION PROJECT ON THE AFTERNOON OF THURSDAY HE WAS INSTRUCTED TO ASSIST IN LEVELING THE CONCRETE IN FRONT OF THE SCREED. THE POUR LAST F ROM APPROX. 200 TO 400 PM THE EE REPORTED TO WORK THE NEXT DAY ON SCHEDULE, AND COMPLETED A FIRST AID/CPR CLASS. MONDAY, HE REPORTED TO WORK ON SCHDULE AND PERFORMED HIS USUAL DUTIES. DURING
September 22, 2000TX · Metal/Non-Metalminer, necOTHER
THE EMPLOYEE HAD COMPLETED A TASK OF CLEARING A SETTLING POND WITH AN EXCAVATOR AND WAS WALKING WITH FELLOW EMPLOYEE TO COMPOLETE AND TURN IN DAILY PAPER WORK WHEN HE COLLAPSED BESIDE PICKUP