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: 689 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Eunice has $28K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K 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.
$28K
proposed penalties
$28K
current assessed
$27K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
88 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-07.
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: 2026-04-08
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
17
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz8
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz5
Respirable dust, <.1mg4
Show the individual readings (17)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2026-04-08
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.24
Crusher Oper/Worker
2026-04-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2026-04-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2013-06-11
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.43
2.72
0.16
Laborer, Bullgang
2013-06-11
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2013-06-11
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.64
3.01
0.21
Crusher Oper/Worker
2013-06-11
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.4
Truck Driver
2010-02-10
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.24
Truck Driver
2010-02-10
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.22
Crusher Oper/Worker
2010-02-10
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.2
Truck Driver
2010-02-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2007-04-04
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.2
Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-04-30
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.43
2.21
0.19
Utility Man
2003-04-30
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.4
Front-end Loader Operator
2003-04-30
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.23
Front-end Loader Operator
2003-04-30
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.55
3.01
0.18
Crusher Oper/Worker
2003-04-30
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.21
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.
Eunice recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2017.
Injury rate, 2017
ⓘ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 1.99 and the all-US-mining average was 2.48 cases per 100 workers.
In New Mexico, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.81 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
2017 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2013 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2008 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2007 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2006 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2005 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2004 *
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
8
2025
7
2024
4
2019
0
2018
8
2017
11
2016
9
2015
8
2014
7
2013
9
2012
8
2011
9
2010
8
2009
9
2008
10
2007
9
2006
9
2005
8
2004
8
2003
8
2002
8
2001
8
2000
8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Eunice sits in Lea County, New Mexico, where the Census mining category is 16.0% 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.
Lea County, New Mexico · Population 73,154
16.0%
Mining share of county employment
$68,750
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
1,838
8
0
4352.6
2026 Q1
3,629
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
838
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
1,567
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
3,162
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
760
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
1,133
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
1,175
3
0
2553.2
Show 77 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
539
0
0
0.0
2019 Q1
0
0
0
2018 Q3
3,800
4
0
1052.6
2018 Q2
5,415
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
4,073
0
0
0.0
2017 Q4
7,444
8
2
1074.7
2017 Q3
5,575
3
1
538.1
2017 Q2
4,887
0
0
0.0
2017 Q1
7,165
0
0
0.0
2016 Q4
5,980
5
3
836.1
2016 Q3
3,587
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
4,829
4
1
828.3
2016 Q1
4,829
4
1
828.3
2015 Q4
3,365
0
0
0.0
2015 Q3
4,975
0
0
0.0
2015 Q2
5,087
3
0
589.7
2015 Q1
5,332
3
1
562.6
2014 Q4
4,551
0
0
0.0
2014 Q3
2,966
0
0
0.0
2014 Q2
4,169
1
0
239.9
2014 Q1
2,872
0
0
0.0
2013 Q4
5,166
1
0
193.6
2013 Q3
5,961
0
0
0.0
2013 Q2
5,007
3
1
599.2
2013 Q1
4,850
2
0
412.4
2012 Q4
4,539
0
0
0.0
2012 Q3
5,257
2
1
380.4
2012 Q2
4,551
0
0
0.0
2012 Q1
5,310
5
2
941.6
2011 Q4
4,450
0
0
0.0
2011 Q3
4,784
0
0
0.0
2011 Q2
4,527
3
0
662.7
2011 Q1
4,939
0
0
0.0
2010 Q4
4,082
1
0
245.0
2010 Q3
5,044
1
0
198.3
2010 Q2
4,509
0
0
0.0
2010 Q1
4,835
1
0
206.8
2009 Q4
3,285
0
0
0.0
2009 Q3
5,001
8
4
1599.7
2009 Q2
5,712
0
0
0.0
2009 Q1
5,686
2
0
351.7
2008 Q4
5,083
0
0
0.0
2008 Q3
6,276
0
0
0.0
2008 Q2
5,633
0
0
0.0
2008 Q1
5,079
0
0
0.0
2007 Q4
6,053
0
0
0.0
2007 Q3
4,503
0
0
0.0
2007 Q2
5,297
0
0
0.0
2007 Q1
4,693
0
0
0.0
2006 Q4
6,478
0
0
0.0
2006 Q3
4,586
0
0
0.0
2006 Q2
4,710
0
0
0.0
2006 Q1
4,635
0
0
0.0
2005 Q4
5,204
1
0
192.2
2005 Q3
4,811
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
5,473
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
4,601
0
0
0.0
2004 Q4
6,247
1
0
160.1
2004 Q3
4,760
0
0
0.0
2004 Q2
6,902
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
4,570
1
0
218.8
2003 Q4
5,256
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
5,768
0
0
0.0
2003 Q2
4,411
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
4,290
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
4,254
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
4,390
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
4,646
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
5,272
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
4,399
1
0
227.3
2001 Q3
5,012
1
0
199.5
2001 Q2
4,415
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
5,233
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
4,603
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
5,055
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
4,446
1
0
224.9
2000 Q1
4,472
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
11 on file
2018 · 1 incident
January 8, 2018NM · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
EMPL GREASING PLANT WHICH WAS SHUT DOWN.WALKING ALONG CONVEYOR AND ACCIDENTLY STUMBLED.REACHED OUT,GRABBED CONVEYOR TO REGAIN BALANCE,PUT WEIGHT ON FINGER RESULTING IN INJURY.
1988 · 1 incident
July 19, 1988NM · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSTEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING IN PLANT AND WAS APPROCHING BOTTOM OF STAIRS LEADING UP TOTHE JAW CRUSHER. HE STEPPED ON SOME SMALL ROCKS ON THE GROUND AND SLIPPED BREAKING A BONE IN HIS FOOT. HE IS OV ER WEIGHT AND HAD JUST RETURNED TO WORK FROM THE SAME INJURY.
1985 · 1 incident
September 5, 1985NM · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanPOWERED HAULAGE
EMPLOYEE DRIVING LOADED PIT TRUCK CLIMBING CRUSHER RAMP WHEN HE VEERED OFF TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE RAMP & AS HE APPROACHED THE EDGE OF THE BANK IT GAVE WAY & THE TRUCK ROLLED OVER ON ITS SIDE INJURING THE DRIVER\S RIGHT HIP. (LACERATION).
1984 · 4 incidents
May 2, 1984NM · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorPOWERED HAULAGE
Wallach Concrete Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
USING LOADER BUCKET TO LOAD DYNMITE CHARGE LOADER ROLLED FORWARD PINNING I.NAME BETWEEN BUCKET & ROCK FACE
April 11, 1984NM · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON