Mining Incidents

EL CENTRO PROCESSING: 33 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Vulcan Materials Company
brawley, Imperial County, CA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0405142

EL CENTRO PROCESSING has $6K 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 2005
33
citations
12
significant & substantial
$5,767
proposed penalties
$5,767
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
30
inspections on record
342
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: 342 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

EL CENTRO PROCESSING has $6K 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
33 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-03-26.
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.
36.4%
significant & substantial
15.2%
high negligence or reckless
36.4%
reasonably likely or greater
42.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 9.1% low, 75.8% moderate, 15.2% 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: 2012-02-23, 14 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2012-02-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 0.92 0.20 Scoop-Tram Operator
2005-12-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
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.
Ownership history
  1. Desert Gravel Company 1991 to 1994
  2. RYERSON 1994 to 2006
  3. Superior Ready Mix Concrete L.P. 2006 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2025 0
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 1
2017 1
2016 1
2015 1
2014 1
2013 1
2012 1
2011 1
2010 1
2009 1
2008 1
2007 1
2006 1
2005 1
2004 1
2003 1
2002 1
2001 1
2000 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

EL CENTRO PROCESSING sits in Imperial County, California, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Imperial County, California · Population 179,319
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$56,393
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
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 3 1
2024 Q4 339 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 619 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 315 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 172 1 1 5814.0
2023 Q4 201 0 0 0.0
Show 93 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 255 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 132 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 23 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 111 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 173 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 331 2 0 6042.3
2022 Q1 205 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 309 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 335 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 214 1 0 4672.9
2021 Q1 62 2 1 32258.1
2020 Q4 142 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 149 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 137 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 135 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 113 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 133 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 493 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 211 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 153 2 1 13071.9
2018 Q3 182 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 174 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 220 4 1 18181.8
2017 Q4 142 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 21 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 58 1 0 17241.4
2017 Q1 126 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 277 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 132 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 198 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 138 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 110 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 104 1 0 9615.4
2015 Q2 184 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 176 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 126 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 68 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 160 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 64 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 24 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 113 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 140 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 104 1 0 9615.4
2012 Q4 160 1 0 6250.0
2012 Q3 120 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 184 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 2 2
2011 Q4 0 0 0
2011 Q3 0 0 0
2011 Q2 88 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 252 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 122 3 2 24590.2
2010 Q3 16 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 136 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 110 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 287 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 296 1 1 3378.4
2009 Q2 112 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 136 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 224 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 304 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 151 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 312 5 1 16025.6
2007 Q3 322 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 157 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 187 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 487 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 187 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 374 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 367 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 937 3 1 3201.7
2005 Q3 786 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 845 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 581 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 825 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,755 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 482 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 482 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 402 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 279 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 497 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 548 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 850 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 900 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 794 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 681 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 706 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 526 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 623 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 690 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 664 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 829 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.