Ellinger Plant #4 has $11K 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
5
Years on record
2024–2026
Latest incident
Apr 2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2020
40
citations
12
significant & substantial
$10,544
proposed penalties
$10,544
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
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: 211 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Ellinger Plant #4 has $11K 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
40 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-28.
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.
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: 2025-07-17
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
9
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg7
Arsenic fumes1
Beryllium fumes1
Cadmium oxide fumes1
Show the individual readings (21)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-07-17
Zinc oxide fumes
0
5
0.00
Iron Worker
2025-07-17
Manganese fumes
0
5
0.00
Iron Worker
2025-07-17
Molybdenum fumes
0
10
0.00
Iron Worker
2025-07-17
Nickel fumes
0
1
0.00
Iron Worker
2025-07-17
Vanadium fumes
0
50
0.00
Iron Worker
2025-07-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2025-07-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2025-07-17
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2025-07-17
Arsenic fumes
0
500
0.00
Iron Worker
2025-07-17
Beryllium fumes
0
2
0.00
Iron Worker
2025-07-17
Cadmium oxide fumes
0
100
0.00
Iron Worker
2025-07-17
Chromium, insoluble
0
1
0.00
Iron Worker
2025-07-17
Cobalt fumes
0
100
0.00
Iron Worker
2025-07-17
Copper fumes
0
100
0.00
Iron Worker
2025-07-17
Iron oxide fumes
0
10
0.00
Iron Worker
2025-07-17
Lead fumes
0
150
0.00
Iron Worker
2025-07-17
Magnesium oxide fumes
0
10
0.00
Iron Worker
2022-04-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Hydrating Plant Operator
2022-04-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cleanup Man
2022-04-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2022-04-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
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.
Ellinger Plant #4 recorded 6.75 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.
6.75
total case rate
3.38
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above 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 *
6.75
3.38
0.000
2024 *
6.58
6.58
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
23
2025
22
2024
22
2023
21
2022
20
2021
20
2020
11
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Ellinger Plant #4 sits in Fayette County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 1.6% 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.
Fayette County, Texas · Population 24,783
1.6%
Mining share of county employment
$76,541
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
Texas Aggregates, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
While installing a guard cover on the #1 shaker motor, the cover dislodged pinching the miner's left hand. The miner pulled their hand from the pinch point revealing cuts and bruising to their pointer, middle, and ring fingers. Miner went to urgent care where the cuts were cleaned and glued shut. Miner then returned to shift.
2025 · 2 incidents
July 2, 2025TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
While performing maintenance on a WA500 Loader, employee's wrench slipped off a drain plug, causing them to twist their back and pinch a nerve. They declined immediate medical attention but visited a doctor the following Monday. Employee was prescribed a muscle relaxer and is currently off duty recovering
Miner removed hard hat to check for a problem on main stacker feed belt when hard hat would not fit, when getting out, miner stood and hit EE's head on channel iron. Another EE checked cut and recommended urgent care. 4 staples where used to close wound. No duty restrictions recommended by medical professionals.
2024 · 2 incidents
June 22, 2024TX · Metal/Non-Metalminer, prospector, necPOWERED HAULAGE
Texas Aggregates, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
While lifting screens to the top of shaker #2 by Skytrack Forklift, Operator lost communication with EE and continued forward. EE became pinned between the forklift and load, and the headbox resulting in injury to the face and hands as EE attempted to stop the motion. Operator was told to back up and EE was unpinned and immediate first aid was applied.